Construction of RDF(S) from UML Class Diagrams
Construction of RDF(S) from UML Class Diagrams
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10.2498/cit.1002459
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2014
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通讯作者：
Qiang Tong;Fu Zhang;Jingwei Cheng
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作者：
Qiang Tong;Fu Zhang;Jingwei Cheng
RDF（Resource Description Framework）和RDF Schema（统称为RDF（S））是描述Web资源信息的规范语言。如何从现有的数据源中构造RDF（S）成为一个重要的研究课题。特别是UML（UnifiedModelingLanguage，统一建模语言）被广泛应用于许多应用领域的数据建模，如何从已有的UML模型中构造RDF（S）成为语义Web环境下需要解决的重要问题。通过对UML和RDF（S）的特点进行比较分析，提出了一种从UML构造RDF（S）的方法，并实现了一个原型构造工具。首先给出了UML和RDF（S）的形式化定义。在此基础上，提出了一种从UML到RDF（S）的构造方法，并给出了一个构造实例，对该方法进行了分析和讨论。在此基础上，实现了一个原型构造工具，实验表明该方法和工具是可行的。
RDF (Resource Description Framework) and RDF Schema (collectively called RDF(S)) are the normative language to describe the Web resource information. How to construct RDF(S) from the existing data sources is becoming an important research issue. In particular, UML (Unified Modeling Language) is being widely applied to data modeling in many application domains, and how to construct RDF(S) from the existing UML models becomes an important issue to be solved in the context of Semantic Web. By comparing and analyzing the characteristics of UML and RDF(S), this paper proposes an approach for constructing RDF(S) from UML and implements a prototype construction tool. First, we give the formal definitions of UML and RDF(S). After that, a construction approach from UML to RDF(S) is proposed, a construction example is provided, and the analyses and discussions about the approach are done. Further, based on the proposed approach, a prototype construction tool is implemented, and the experiment shows that the approach and the tool are feasible.