Integrating Ontologies in Database Scheme: Ontology-Based Views Conceptual Modeling

Abstract

In this paper, we propose an approach to integrate the domain ontology life cycle in database scheme process design. To this end, we lay down that: (i) the ANSI/X3/SPARC architecture is used as modeling framework, (ii) ontology and data semantics are both captured into external schema and propagated to lower level schema, and (iii) ontology-based knowledge is stored in database. As a result, our approach, called Onto Views CM (Ontology-based Views Conceptual Modeling), builds a database having two schemata: a domain ontology schema and a data dimension schema both stored in a single system catalog. We also propose a high level algorithm to access this database.