TRANSFORMING ONTOLOGY REPRESENTATION FROM OWL TO RELATIONAL DATABASE

The current work has arisen with respect to the growing importance of ontology modelling in Informa-tion Systems development. Due to emerging technologies of Semantic Web, it is desirable to use for this purpose the Web Ontology Language OWL. From the other side, the relational database technology has ensured the best facilities for storing, updating and manipulating the information of problem domain. The algorithms for transformation of domain ontology, described in OWL, to relational database are proposed. The methodology is illustrated with an example.

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