Ontology Query Languages for Ontology-Based Databases: A Survey

Current databases and their associated languages al low a user to exploit data according to their logical model. Usually, there is a gap between this logical model and the a ctual concepts represented. As a consequence, exploiting, exchangi ng and integrating data stored in databases are difficult. To overcome these problems , several approaches have proposed to extend current databases with ontologies. We cal l d Ontology-Based Databases (OBDB) such databases. However, current database languages such as SQL have not been designed to exploit ontologies. Thus, a new ge neration of languages we called ontology query languages has emerged. The goal of this chapter is to provid e an up to date survey on ontology query languages. We survey languages coming from the Semantic Web community as well as those coming from the database community.

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