Open AccessComputer ScienceEngineering

Diego Calvanese, Benjamin Cogrel, Sarah Komla-Ebri, R. Kontchakov, Davide Lanti, Martín Rezk, M. Rodriguez-Muro, Guohui Xiao

2016.12.6Semantic Web

DOI: 10.3233/sw-160217

tlooto Summary

Ontop is presented, an open-source Ontology-Based Data Access (OBDA) system that allows for querying relational data sources through a conceptual representation of the domain of interest, provided in terms of an ontology, to which the data sources are mapped.

Abstract

We present Ontop, an open-source Ontology-Based Data Access (OBDA) system that allows for querying relational data sources through a conceptual representation of the domain of interest, provided in terms of an ontology, to which the data sources are mapped. Key features of Ontop are its solid theoretical foundations, a virtual approach to OBDA, which avoids materializing triples and is implemented through the query rewriting technique, extensive optimizations exploiting all elements of the OBDA architecture, its compliance to all relevant W3C recommendations (including SPARQL queries, R2RML mappings, and OWL2QL and RDFS ontologies), and its support for all major relational databases.

Citation format

CALVANESE, Diego, et al. Ontop: Answering SPARQL queries over relational databases. Semantic Web, 2016, 8: 471–487.