Re: Mapping of DAML+OIL onto DB

On April 3, Hector Ceballos writes:
> You're mentioning initiatives and works for mapping ontologies in
> databases, but is there any initiative for especifying in certain
> way a relationship between classes/properties and objects stored in
> a database? This way, ontologies would remain at web but instances
> could be stored locally and accesible through intelligent agents or
> other kind of services.  Probably it's not related with original
> question, but I'd like to know if exist something like this.

This is a whole research topic in Description Logics: how KR and DB
can go together. I'll give a tutorial on that at the 1st International
Semantic Web Conference in June. While waiting :-) you can have a look
at the tutorial web page:
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~franconi/dl/course/tutorial/ 
where a short survey paper is available:
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~franconi/dl/course/tutorial/iswc-02-tutorial.pdf

At the "Intro to DL" course web page you can have a look at the last
module on DL&DB, and at the listed literature available online:
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~franconi/dl/course/

cheers
-- e.

Enrico Franconi                     - franconi@cs.man.ac.uk
University of Manchester            - http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~franconi/
Department of Computer Science      - Phone: +44 (161) 275 6170
Manchester M13 9PL, UK              - Fax:   +44 (161) 275 6204

Received on Wednesday, 3 April 2002 17:49:26 UTC