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A Rule-Based Conversion of a DTD to a Conceptual Schema

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XML is a common standard for semi-structured and structured data representation and exchange over the Web. This paper describes a semi-automatic process for converting an XML DTD to a schema in a canonical conceptual model based on ORM/NIAM and extended ER models. This process is part of a bottom-up approach for integration of XML sources that takes a set of DTDs and generates an ontology for query purposes. Ac onceptual schema for a DTD simplifies the integration activity because provides a semantically rich representation of an XML source. The core of the process is a set of conversion rules that consider the DTD structure and heuristics related to default semantic interpretations on such structure in order to generate the corresponding concepts in the canonical conceptual schema.

This work is partially supported by CAPES Foundation.

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  1. Instituto de Informatica, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Cx. Postal 15064, 91501-970, Porto Alegre, RS, Brasil

    Ronaldo dos Santos Mello & Carlos Alberto Heuser

  2. Depto. de Informatica e Estatistica, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Cx. Postal 476, Florianopolis, SC, Brasil

    Ronaldo dos Santos Mello

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  1. Ricoh Company, Ltd., Software Research Center, 1-1-17 Koishikawa, Bunkyo-ku, 112-0002, Tokyo, Japan

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  2. George Mason University, Center for Secure Information Systems, Mail Stop 4A4, Fairfax, 22030-4444, VA, USA

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  3. Department of Computer and Information Science, The Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7491, Trondheim, Norway

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Mello, R.d.S., Heuser, C.A. (2001). A Rule-Based Conversion of a DTD to a Conceptual Schema. In: S.Kunii, H., Jajodia, S., Sølvberg, A. (eds) Conceptual Modeling — ER 2001. ER 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2224. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45581-7_12

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