Multi-level Metadata Integration System: XML, RDF and RuleML

Our work is part of the heterogeneous data integration, with the definition of a structural and semantic mediation model. Our aim is to propose architecture for the heterogeneous sources metadata mediation, represented by XML, RDF and RuleML models, providing to the user the metadata transparency. This, by including data structures, of natures fundamentally different, and allowing the decomposition of a query involving multiple sources, to queries specific to these sources, then recompose the result.

Authors:

• Messaouda Fareh
• Omar Boussaid
• Rachid Challal

Keywords:

• Mediator
• Metadata
• Query
• RDF
• RuleML
• XML
• Xquery.

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