Semantic Concept Recommendation for Continuously Evolving Knowledge Graphs

With the digitalization of many industrial processes and the increasing interconnection of devices, the number of data sources and associated data sets is constantly increasing. Due to the heterogeneity of these large amounts of data sources, finding, accessing and understanding them is a major challenge for data consumers who want to work with the data. In order to make these data sources searchable and understandable, the paradigms of Ontology-Based Data Access (OBDA) or Ontology-Based Data Integration (OBDI) are used today. An important part of these paradigms is the creation of a mapping, such as a semantic model, between a previously defined ontology and the existing data sources. Although there are already many approaches that automate the creation of this mapping by using data-driven or data-structure-driven approaches, none of them focuses on the fact that the underlying ontology evolves over time. However, this is essential in today’s age of large amounts of data and ever-growing number of data sources.