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Towards a Semantic Integration of Medical Relational Databases by Using Ontologies: A Case Study

This report discusses a suitable and working solution for the semantic integration of dispersed, medical relational databases by coupling the databases to a medical ontology. We will demonstrate how this can be done by means of a case study, and how the coupling result can be deployed to query a relational database at the ontology level. Next to that, we will introduce a coupling language, and a discussion on how to integrate the language in two ontology models.

Pieter Verheyden | Tom Deray

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