Automatic Constructing OWL Ontology from Relational Database Schema

In this paper we present a new tool, called DB_DOOWL, for creating domain ontology from relational database schema (RDBS). In contrast with existing transformation approaches, we propose a generic solution based on automatic instantiation of a specified meta-ontology. This later is an owl ontology which describes any database structure. A prototype of our proposed tool is implemented based on Jena in Java in order to demonstrate its feasibility.

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