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The SIRUP Ontology Query API in Action

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Advances in Database Technology - EDBT 2006 (EDBT 2006)

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Ontology languages to represent ontologies exist in large numbers, and users who want to access or reuse ontologies can often be confronted with a language they do not know. Therefore, ontology languages are nowadays themselves a source of heterogeneity.

In this demo, we present the SIRUP Ontology Query API (SOQA) [5] that has been developed for the SIRUP approach to semantic data integration [4]. SOQA is an ontology language independent Java API for query access to ontological metadata and data that can be represented in a variety of ontology languages. In addition, we demonstrate two applications that are based on SOQA: The SOQA Browser, a tool to graphically inspect all ontology information that can be accessed through SOQA, and SOQA-QL, an SQL-like query language that supports declarative queries against ontological metadata and data.

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  1. Database Technology Research Group, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Winterthurerstrasse 190, CH-8057, Zürich, Switzerland

    Patrick Ziegler, Christoph Sturm & Klaus R. Dittrich

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Athens, Greece

    Yannis Ioannidis

  2. University of Konstanz, P.O.Box D188, 78457, Konstanz, Germany

    Marc H. Scholl

  3. Sustainable Content Logistics Centre, Hamburg, Germany

    Joachim W. Schmidt

  4. Chair of Software Engineering for Business Information Systems, Technische Universität München, Boltzmannstraße 3, 85748, Garching b. München,  

    Florian Matthes

  5. Department of Informatics, University of Athens Panepistimiopolis, 15771, Athens, Greece

    Mike Hatzopoulos

  6. IPD, Universität Karlsruhe, Am Fasanengarten 5, 76131, Karlsruhe,  

    Klemens Boehm

  7. TU München, D-85748, Garching, Germany

    Alfons Kemper

  8. Technische Universität München, Germany

    Torsten Grust

  9. Institute for Computer Science, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität München,  

    Christian Boehm

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Ziegler, P., Sturm, C., Dittrich, K.R. (2006). The SIRUP Ontology Query API in Action. In: Ioannidis, Y., et al. Advances in Database Technology - EDBT 2006. EDBT 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3896. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11687238_85

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