SWAD-Europe Extracting Semantic Information from Colloquial XML

The SWAD-Europe workplan describes the structure of the overall project. This page reports on the outputs of the activity on XML and Semantic Web Integration research prototypes (WP6).

This workpackage builds on the findings of WP5, Integration with XML. It provides an approach to defining mappings between an ontology covering a subject area and a schema defining an XML document. This workpackage has developed a tool to allow this mapping to be defined graphically, supporting Web Ontology Language (OWL) and W3C XML Schema 1.0.

Software

• Mapping Tool - Containing Java source code, a jar file containing the application classes, an Ant build file and configuration file (build.properties). Requires Java 1.4.2 or later, the Jena 2.1 libraries and ant 1.6.1 or later.
  
• Full details on how to run the application are in the README file. In short:
• Unzip the file mapper.zip.
  
• Edit build.properties to reflect the location of the Jena libraries and any HTTP proxy settings you may require.
  
• Invoke ant without any arguments  - the default target runs the application from the file mapper-dist.jar.

Reports

• WP6.3 Pragmatic Methods for Mapping Semantics from XML Schemas

Presentation

• Talk given at SWAD-Europe meeting held at CLRC RAL, January 22nd 2004 (PowerPoint format - save to file first before loading into Microsoft PowerPoint).