SPARQL2OWL: Towards bridging the semantic gap between RDF and OWL

Mona AlShahrani, Hussein Abdualkareem Hussein AlMashouq, Robert Hoehndorf

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Abstract

Several large databases in biology are now making their information available through the Resource Description Framework (RDF). RDF can be used for large datasets and provides a graph-based semantics. The Web Ontology Language (OWL), another Semantic Web standard, provides a more formal, model-theoretic semantics. While some approaches combine RDF and OWL, for example for querying, knowledge in RDF and OWL is often expressed differently. Here, we propose a method to generate OWL ontologies from SPARQL queries using n-ary relational patterns. Combined with background knowledge from ontologies, the generated OWL ontologies can be used for expressive queries and quality control of RDF data. We implement our method in a a prototype tool available at https://github.com/bio-ontology-research-group/SPARQL2OWL.
Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2016 Joint International Conference on Biological Ontology and BioCreative - Food, Nutrition, Health and Environment for the 9 Billion, ICBO-BioCreative 2016
PublisherCEUR-WS
StatePublished - Jan 1 2016

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