Using XML data integration and ontology reuse to share agricultural data. (2nd June 2009)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Sall, Ousmane; Lo, Moussa; Gandon, Fabien; Niang, Cheikh; Diop, Ibrahima
• Is Part Of: International journal of metadata, semantics and ontologies. Volume 4:Number 1/2(2009)
• Page Start: 93
• Page End: 105
• Publication Date: 2009-06-02
• Subjects: XML -- semantic dataweb -- agricultural data integration -- ontology reuse -- information sharing -- agriculture -- agricultural ontology -- mediation -- data retrieval; Metadata -- Periodicals; Semantic Web -- Periodicals; Ontologies (Information retrieval) -- Periodicals; Data structures (Computer science) -- Periodicals; Information theory -- Periodicals; 005.74
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1744-2621

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.