Interpreting XML documents via an RDF schema ontology

Author

Klein, Michel

Author_Institution

Vrije Univ., Amsterdam, Netherlands

fYear

2002

fDate

2-6 Sept. 2002

Firstpage

889

Lastpage

893

Abstract

Many business documents are represented in XML. However XML only describes the structure of data, not its meaning. The meaning of data is required for advanced automated processing, as is envisaged in the "Semantic Web". Ontologies are often used to describe the meaning of data items. Many ontology languages, however, depend on the RDF data model and cannot describe XML data directly. This paper presents a procedure that can be used to turn XML documents into RDF statements via an RDF schema specification. This allows semantic annotation of XML documents via external RDF schema ontologies. This procedure makes the data in XML documents available for the Semantic Web.

Keywords

business data processing; data models; hypermedia markup languages; information resources; semantic networks; RDF schema ontology; RDF statements; Semantic Web; XML document interpretation; XML representation; advanced automated processing; business documents; data meaning; ontologies; schema specification; semantic annotation; Application software; Automation; Computer displays; Computer vision; Data models; Information retrieval; Ontologies; Resource description framework; Semantic Web; XML;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Database and Expert Systems Applications, 2002. Proceedings. 13th International Workshop on

ISSN

1529-4188

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1668-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DEXA.2002.1046008

Filename

1046008