Semantic Web Technologies and Data Management.pptVIP

Semantic Web Technologies and Data Management Li Ma, Jing Mei, Yue Pan, Krishna Kulkarni, Achille Fokoue, Anand Ranganathan Why bring together Relational Databases and the Semantic Web? RDF and OWL ontologies are good in capturing data semantics Can be used to define a “semantic” model of the underlying relational data that can be tailored to different domains or applications, and that hides the actual layout of data across different tables Allow use of additional domain knowledge in OWL ontologies while answering queries to the relational DB Allow use of DL reasoning while answering quer