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The Ontop Framework for Ontology Based Data Access

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Ontology Based Data Access (OBDA) [4] is a paradigm of accessing data trough a conceptual layer. Usually, the conceptual layer is expressed in the form of an RDF(S) [10] or OWL [15] ontology, and the data is stored in relational databases.

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  1. 1.

    http://ontop.inf.unibz.it

  2. 2.

    http://www.optique-project.eu

  3. 3.

    https://github.com/ontop/ontop/wiki/Example_MovieOntology

  4. 4.

    http://www.imdb.com/interfaces

  5. 5.

    http://imdbpy.sourceforge.net

  6. 6.

    https://github.com/ontop/ontop-examples

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This paper is supported by the EU under the large-scale integrating project (IP) Optique (Scalable End-user Access to Big Data), grant agreement n. FP7-318338.

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Bagosi, T. et al. (2014). The Ontop Framework for Ontology Based Data Access. In: Zhao, D., Du, J., Wang, H., Wang, P., Ji, D., Pan, J. (eds) The Semantic Web and Web Science. CSWS 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 480. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-45495-4_6

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