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	Title:	Using XML data integration and ontology reuse to share agricultural data
	Author:	Ousmane Sall, Moussa Lo, Fabien Gandon, Cheikh Niang, Ibrahima Diop
	Address:	Laboratoire d'Analyse Numerique et d'Informatique (LANI), UFR SAT – Universite Gaston Berger, de Saint-Louis – BP 234, Senegal. ' Laboratoire d'Analyse Numerique et d'Informatique (LANI), UFR SAT – Universite Gaston Berger, de Saint-Louis – BP 234, Senegal. ' Equipe Edelweiss, INRIA Mediterranee Sophia Antipolis, France. ' Laboratoire d'Analyse Numerique et d'Informatique (LANI), UFR SAT – Universite Gaston Berger, de Saint-Louis – BP 234, Senegal. ' Laboratoire d'Analyse Numerique et d'Informatique (LANI), UFR SAT – Universite Gaston Berger, de Saint-Louis – BP 234, Senegal
	Journal:	International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies 2009 - Vol. 4, No.1/2  pp. 93 - 105
	Abstract:	We present a data integration approach to enable multi-agency partners to share their agricultural data sources. We perform the integration in three phases. First, a structural integration phase, based on the use of XML documents warehouses (called dataweb), allows to create a warehouse for each partner. A second step consists in the integration of these dataweb by associating an ontology-based knowledge to each warehouse. That is done by a semi-automatic building of OWL ontology starting from dataweb and by re-use of the Agricultural Ontology Service. A third mediation phase permits to query in a uniform manner these different semantic dataweb.
	Keywords:	XML; semantic dataweb; agricultural data integration; ontology reuse; information sharing; agriculture; agricultural ontology; mediation; data retrieval.
	DOI:	10.1504/IJMSO.2009.026258
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