Ontology-based RDF integration of heterogeneous data

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Abstract

The proliferation of heterogeneous data sources in many application contexts brings an urgent need for expressive and efficient data integration mechanisms. There are strong advantages to using RDF graphs as the integration format: being schemaless, they allow for flexible integration of data from heterogeneous sources; RDF graphs can be interpreted with the help of an ontology, describing application semantics; last but not least, RDF enables joint querying of the data and the ontology. To address this need, we formalize RDF Integration Systems (RIS), Ontology Based-Data Access mediators, that go beyond the state of the art in the ability to expose, integrate and flexibly query data from heterogeneous sources through GLAV (global-local-as-view) mappings. We devise several query answering strategies, based on an innovative integration of LAV view-based rewriting and a form of mapping saturation. Our experiments show that one of these strategies brings strong performance advantages, resulting from a balanced use of mapping saturation and query reformulation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Database Technology - EDBT 2020
Subtitle of host publication23rd International Conference on Extending Database Technology, Proceedings
EditorsAngela Bonifati, Yongluan Zhou, Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, Alexander Bohm, Dan Olteanu, George Fletcher, Arijit Khan, Bin Yang
PublisherOpenProceedings.org
Pages299-310
Number of pages12
ISBN (Electronic)9783893180837
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2020
Event23rd International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT 2020 - Copenhagen, Denmark
Duration: 30 Mar 20202 Apr 2020

Publication series

NameAdvances in Database Technology - EDBT
Volume2020-March
ISSN (Electronic)2367-2005

Conference

Conference23rd International Conference on Extending Database Technology, EDBT 2020
Country/TerritoryDenmark
CityCopenhagen
Period30/03/202/04/20

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