Automatically Generating RDF Instances from Relational Data Sources

Abstract

The development of Semantic Web mainly depends on enrichment of Semantic Web metadata. The semantic web represents metadata as a relation of triples using the graph based data model, Resource Description Framework (RDF) data model. An automatic and simple strategy is needed to deal with a process of mapping relational database to Resource Description Framework data format in order to provide an opportunity for exploration, experimentation and representation of relational data into Web data. The goal of this paper is to make existing relational database content available for Semantic Web applications. This paper fulfills the needs of this metadata by dealing with a successful and automatic production of Semantic Web metadata approach. To demonstrate the practical applicability of our approach, a prototype which is a system for generating RDF document from relational database instances, has been implemented. We make Semantic Web metadata production as simple as HTML publishing.