Abstract:

Integrity constraint is a formula that checks whether all necessary information has been explicitly provided. It can be added into ontology to guarantee the data-centric application. In this paper, a set of constraint axioms called IC-mapping axioms are stated. Based on these axioms, a special ontology with integrity constraint, which is adapted to map ontology knowledge to data in relational databases, is defined. It’s generated through our checking and modification. Making use of the traditional mapping approaches, it can be mapped to relational databases as a normal ontology. Unlike what in the past, a novel mapping approach named IC-based mapping is proposed in accordance with such special ontology. The detailed algorithm is put forward and compared with other existing approaches used in Semantic Web applications. The result shows that our method is advanced to the traditional approaches.

Key words:

Semantic Web, integrity constraint, ontology, relational database