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A Systematic Approach to Review Legacy Schemas Based on Ontological Analysis

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Metadata and Semantic Research (MTSR 2018)

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Usually, data schemas are the only documentation available for legacy data. Information Technology (IT) artifacts, such as conceptual schemas, if existent, are often outdated. This leads to inconsistencies and ambiguities, as well as difficulties in reusing data. This work proposes an approach for reviewing data schemas based on ontological analysis, which considers each concept according to its nature, capturing more precisely its essence and generally improving semantic richness and precision. The idea is to provide a systematic procedure to annotate legacy data, starting with its conceptual schema, and thus to contribute to generate more consistent conceptual modeling artifacts. In order to illustrate the proposed procedure, the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) is used as a theoretical reference for annotating a real data schema in the Legal domain.

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  1. Military Institute of Engineering, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Raquel Lima Façanha & Maria Cláudia Cavalcanti

  2. Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

    Maria Luiza Machado Campos

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  1. Alexander Technological Educational Institute (ATEI) of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Emmanouel Garoufallou

  2. Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy

    Fabio Sartori

  3. Alexander Technological Educational Institute (ATEI) of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Rania Siatri

  4. Library and Information Services, Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus

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Façanha, R.L., Cavalcanti, M.C., Campos, M.L.M. (2019). A Systematic Approach to Review Legacy Schemas Based on Ontological Analysis. In: Garoufallou, E., Sartori, F., Siatri, R., Zervas, M. (eds) Metadata and Semantic Research. MTSR 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 846. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14401-2_6

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