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In a semantic environment data is described by ontologies and heterogeneity problems have to be solved at the ontological level. This means that alignments between ontologies have to be created, most probably during design-time, and used in various run-time processes. Such alignments describe a set of mappings between the source and target ontologies, where the mappings show how instance data from one ontology can be expressed in terms of another ontology. We propose a formal model for mapping creation. Starting from this model we explore how such a model maps onto a design-time graphical tool that can be used in creating alignments between ontologies. We also investigate how such a model helps in expressing the mappings in a logical language, based on the semantic relationships identified using the graphical tool.
Work funded by the European Commission under the projects ASG, DIP, enIRaF, InfraWebs, Knowledge Web, Musing, Salero, SEKT, Seemp, SemanticGOV, Super, SWING and TripCom; by Science Foundation Ireland under the DERI-LÃon Grant No.SFI/02/CE1/I13; by the FFG (Österreichische Forschungsförderungsgeselleschaft mbH) under the projects Grisino, RW2, SemNetMan, SeNSE, TSC, OnTourism.
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Mocan, A., Cimpian, E., Kerrigan, M. (2006). Formal Model for Ontology Mapping Creation. In: Cruz, I., et al. The Semantic Web - ISWC 2006. ISWC 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4273. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11926078_33
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