- Source: Semantic mapper
A semantic mapper is tool or service that aids in the transformation of data elements from one namespace into another namespace. A semantic mapper is an essential component of a semantic broker and one tool that is enabled by the Semantic Web technologies.
Essentially the problems arising in semantic mapping are the same as in data mapping for data integration purposes, with the difference that here the semantic relationships are made explicit through the use of semantic nets or ontologies which play the role of data dictionaries in data mapping.
Structure
A semantic mapper must have access to three data sets:
List of data elements in source namespace
List of data elements in destination namespace
List of semantic equivalent statements between source and destination (e.g. owl:equivalentClass, owl:equivalentProperty or owl:sameAs in OWL).
A semantic mapper processes on a list of data elements in the source namespace. The semantic mapper will successively translate the data elements from the source namespace to the destination namespace. The mapping does not necessarily need to be a one-to-one mapping. Some data elements may map to several data elements in the destination.
Some semantic mappers are static in that they will do a one-time data transforms. Others will generate an executable program to repeatedly perform this transform. The output of this program may be any transformation system such as XSLT, a Java program or a program in some other procedural language.
See also
Data model
Data wrangling
Enterprise application integration
Mediation
Ontology matching
Semantic heterogeneity
Semantic integration
Semantic translation
Semantic unification
References
Ontologies & the Semantic Web for Semantic Interoperability Leo Obrst
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Graph database
- Daftar pengambilan alih oleh Google
- Semantic mapper
- Mapper
- Semantic broker
- Semantic mapping
- Semantic network
- Data mapping
- Semantic translation
- Semantic Web
- Semantic unification
- Uniform Resource Identifier
