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Ontology is the fundamental part of Semantic Web. The goal of W3C is to bring the web into (its full potential) a semantic web with reusing previous systems and artifacts. Most legacy systems have been documented in structural analysis and structured design (SASD), especially in simple or Extended ER Diagram (ERD). Such systems need up-gradation to become the part of semantic web. In this paper, we present ERD to OWL-DL ontology transformation rules at concrete level. These rules facilitate an easy and understandable transformation from ERD to OWL. The set of rules for transformation is tested on a structured analysis and design example. The framework provides OWL ontology for semantic web fundamental. This framework helps software engineers in upgrading the structured analysis and design artifact ERD, to components of semantic web. Moreover our transformation tool, ER2OWL, reduces the cost and time for building OWL ontologies with the reuse of existing entity relationship models.
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Fahad, M. (2008). ER2OWL: Generating OWL Ontology from ER Diagram. In: Shi, Z., Mercier-Laurent, E., Leake, D. (eds) Intelligent Information Processing IV. IIP 2008. IFIP – The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 288. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-87685-6_6
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