Design and Implementation of Ontology Generator Based on Relational Database

In order to make use of the existing relational database to generate ontology automatically,this paper analyzes the correspondent relationship between relational database and OWL Ontology,designs a set of conversion rules and implements an Ontology generator based on relational database in VC++ environment,which converts relational database to OWL Ontology successfully and shortens the construction time of Ontology effectively.The ontology generator is verified with a concrete example.