Data wharehouses: An ontology approach

Alexandra Pomares Q, José Abásolo P

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Abstract

Although dimensional design for data warehouses has been used in a considerable amount of projects, it does have limitations of expressiveness, particularly with respect to what can be said about relations and attributes properties and restrictions. We present a new way to design data warehouses, based on ontologies, that overcomes many of these limitations. In the proposed architecture descriptive ontologies are used to build the data warehouse and taxonomic ontologies are used during data preparation phase. We discuss the expressive power of Ontology approach showing a semantic comparison with dimensional model both applied to a case study.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationICEIS 2006 - 8th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Proceedings
Pages187-192
Number of pages6
StatePublished - 2006
Event8th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2006 - Paphos, Cyprus
Duration: 23 May 200627 May 2006

Publication series

NameICEIS 2006 - 8th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Proceedings
VolumeDISI

Conference

Conference8th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS 2006
Country/TerritoryCyprus
CityPaphos
Period23/05/0627/05/06

Keywords

  • Data integration
  • Data warehouse
  • Data warehouse design
  • Dimensional model
  • Ontologies

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