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Mapping the Web Ontology Language to the OpenAPI Specification

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Advances in Conceptual Modeling (ER 2020)

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Many organizations maintain knowledge graphs that are organized according to ontologies. However, these ontologies are implemented in languages (e.g. OWL) that are difficult to understand by users who are not familiar with knowledge representation techniques. In particular, this affects web developers who want to develop ontology-based applications but may find challenging accessing ontology-based data in knowledge graphs through SPARQL queries. To address this problem, we propose an accessible layer for ontology-based knowledge graphs through REST APIs. We define a mapping specification between the Web Ontology Language (OWL) and the OpenAPI Specification (OAS) to provide ontology-based API definitions in a language well-known to web developers. Our mapping specification identifies key similarities between OWL and OAS and provides implementation guidelines and examples. We also developed a reference mapping implementation that automatically transforms OWL ontologies into OpenAPI specifications in a matter of seconds.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification.

  2. 2.

    http://spec.openapis.org/oas/v3.0.3.

  3. 3.

    https://w3id.org/OWLToOAS.

  4. 4.

    https://owl-to-oas.readthedocs.io/en/latest/mapping/#data-types_1.

  5. 5.

    https://github.com/KnowledgeCaptureAndDiscovery/OBA/releases/tag/3.4.0.

  6. 6.

    http://tiny.cc/3eyjsz.

  7. 7.

    https://wiki.dbpedia.org/services-resources/ontology.

  8. 8.

    https://code.google.com/archive/p/linked-data-api.

  9. 9.

    https://dev.realestatecore.io/OWL2OAS.

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This work has been supported by a Predoctoral grant from the I+D+i program of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and the Spanish project DATOS 4.0: RETOS Y SOLUCIONES (TIN2016-78011-C4-4-R).

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  1. Ontology Engineering Group, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Paola Espinoza-Arias & Oscar Corcho

  2. Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA

    Daniel Garijo

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Espinoza-Arias, P., Garijo, D., Corcho, O. (2020). Mapping the Web Ontology Language to the OpenAPI Specification. In: Grossmann, G., Ram, S. (eds) Advances in Conceptual Modeling. ER 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12584. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65847-2_11

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