ProGOMap: Automatic Generation of Mappings From Property Graphs to Ontologies
- Resource Type
- Periodical
- Authors
- Fathy, N.; Gad, W.; Badr, N.; Hashem, M.
- Source
- IEEE Access Access, IEEE. 9:113100-113116 2021
- Subject
- Aerospace
Bioengineering
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
Engineered Materials, Dielectrics and Plasmas
Engineering Profession
Fields, Waves and Electromagnetics
General Topics for Engineers
Geoscience
Nuclear Engineering
Photonics and Electrooptics
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Robotics and Control Systems
Signal Processing and Analysis
Transportation
Ontologies
Resource description framework
Semantics
Relational databases
Data models
Object recognition
Measurement
Property graph database
resource description framework
ontology engineering
ontology alignment
graph model heterogeneity
- Language
- ISSN
- 2169-3536
Property Graph databases (PGs) are emerging as efficient graph stores with flexible schemata. This raises the need to have a unified view over heterogenous data produced from these stores. Ontology based Data Access (OBDA) has become the most dominant approach to integrate heterogeneous data sources by providing a unified conceptual view (ontology) over them. The corner stone of any OBDA system is to define mappings between the data source and the target (domain) ontology. However, manual mapping generation is time consuming and requires great efforts. This paper proposes ProGOMap ( Pro perty G raph to O ntology M apper) system that automatically generates mappings from property graphs to a domain ontology. ProGOMap starts by generating a putative ontology with direct axioms from PG. A novel ontology learning algorithm is proposed to enrich the putative ontology with subclass axioms inferred from PG. The putative ontology is then aligned to an existing domain ontology using string similarity metrics. Another algorithm is proposed to align object properties between the two ontologies considering different modelling criteria. Finally, mappings are generated from alignment results. Experiments were done on eight data sets with different scenarios to evaluate the effectiveness of the generated mappings. The experimental results achieved mapping accuracy up to 97% and 81% when addressing PG-to-ontology terminological and structural heterogeneities, respectively. Ontology learning by inferring subclass axioms from a property graph helps to address the heterogeneity between the PG and ontology models.