Re: OWL modeling of E-R pattern

On 24 Nov 2010, at 15:08, Milan Zdravkovic wrote:

> As a part of a small project, I need to perform a semantic analysis of the ER model (relational database). However, I am stucked with a problem of inferring the intermediary tables (ones that are used only to connect two other tables with many-to-many relation). Relevant relations are:
> 
> entity hasAttribute attribute
> relation hasSourceAttribute attribute
> relation hasDestinationAttribute attribute
> 
> Now, I assume that intermediary table is the table whose all fields are source attributes of some relation, or..
> 
> entity and hasAttribute only (isSourceAttributeOf some relation)
> 
> However, this does not work. Could you please help ?

Why not? Did you make isSourceAttributeOf an inverse of hasSoruceAttribute?

Cheers,
Bijan.

Received on Wednesday, 24 November 2010 15:22:10 UTC