XSLT transformation generating OWL ontologies automatically based on XML Schemas

Author

Bosch, Thomas ; Mathiak, Brigitte

Author_Institution

GESIS, Leibniz Inst. for the Social Sci., Mannheim, Germany

fYear

2011

fDate

11-14 Dec. 2011

Firstpage

660

Lastpage

667

Abstract

Designing domain ontologies from scratch is a time-consuming process. In many cases, both the terminologies and the syntactic structures of domain data models are already described in form of XML Schemas. XSLT transformations are used to lift the syntactic level of XML documents to the semantic level of OWL ontologies by mapping any XML Schemas to generated ontologies automatically. Ontology engineers base domain ontologies on generated ontologies to enrich the information located in the XML schemas with additional domain specific semantic information. The aim of this paper is to show the implementation of the general approach transforming any XML Schemas into generated ontologies automatically using XSLT.

Keywords

XML; document handling; ontologies (artificial intelligence); OWL ontology; Web ontology language; XML document; XML schema; XSLT transformation; domain ontology; domain specific semantic information; extensible markup language; Data models; OWL; Ontologies; Resource description framework; Semantics; Syntactics; XML; OWL; XML Schema; XSLT;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Internet Technology and Secured Transactions (ICITST), 2011 International Conference for

Conference_Location

Abu Dhabi

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0884-8

Type

conf

Filename

6148416