基于规则的关系数据库到本体的转换方法

Rule-based approach to transform relational database to ontology

提出了一种新的全自动的关系数据库到本体的转换方法,通过分析关系模式的主键、属性、引用关系、完整性约束和部分数据来创建本体,尽量保持了关系数据库的信息,并在构建的过程中对信息进行初步的集成和分类。系统实践证明,该方法可自动进行关系模式和数据到本体的等价转换,而且完成了对关系数据库中部分语义信息的辅助挖掘。

The paper proposed a novel automatic transform method from relational database to ontology. By the analysis of primary keys, attributes, foreign keys, integrity constraints of relational model and partial data, this method could construct ontology while conserving the information of the relational databases and fulfilling primary integration and classification. The implementation of the system shows that this method can automatically make the equivalent transformation from relational schema and data to ontology, and accomplish aiding mining about partial semantic information in the relational databases.