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Heterogeneous metadata integration is an issue in digital libraries. Mapping is often used for an integrated metadata access, but the implicit knowledge and relations embedded in metadata are ignored. This paper aims to present a semantic web approach to heterogeneous metadata integration of biodiversity repositories. First, implicit knowledge and relations in metadata are extracted out and transformed into a shared ontology with expression of RDF and OWL languages. Next the shared ontology plays an inter-lingua role in harmonizing heterogeneous metadata to achieve an ontology mapping with a unified view. Then the shared ontology is expressed by SWRL for inference query to offer in-depth semantic discovery. Finally four question answering oriented queries are employed to examine the feasibility of the shared ontology for heterogeneous metadata integration.
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Liao, SH., Huang, HC., Chen, YN. (2010). A Semantic Web Approach to Heterogeneous Metadata Integration. In: Pan, JS., Chen, SM., Nguyen, N.T. (eds) Computational Collective Intelligence. Technologies and Applications. ICCCI 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6421. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16693-8_23
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