Using XML data integration and ontology reuse to share agricultural data
by Ousmane Sall, Moussa Lo, Fabien Gandon, Cheikh Niang, Ibrahima Diop
International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies (IJMSO), Vol. 4, No. 1/2, 2009

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.

Online publication date: Sat, 30-May-2009

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