An ontology-based framework for XML semantic integration

• Published in: Proceedings. International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium, 2004. IDEAS '04 pp. 217 - 226
• Main Authors: Cruz, I.R., Huiyong Xiao, Feihong Hsu
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Los Alamitos CA IEEE 2004; IEEE Computer Society
• Subjects: Applied sciences; Computer science; Computer science; control theory; systems; Computer systems and distributed systems. User interface; Exact sciences and technology; Information retrieval; Information systems. Data bases; Memory organisation. Data processing; Merging; Ontologies; Query processing; Resource description framework; Semantic Web; Software; XML; Query formulation; Information integration; Peer to peer; Database query; Ontology; XML language; Distributed system; Ontology mapping; Query processing; Semantics; World wide web; Document structure; Database; Reversibility; Internet; Electronic data interchange; Information structure

XML is becoming the standard for data interchange on the Web. However, XML and its schema languages do not express semantics but rather structure, such as nesting information. Therefore, semantically equivalent documents often present different document structures. We provide an ontology-based frame...