Integrating Distributed Configurations with RDFS and SPARQL

Gottfried Schenner, Stefan Bischof, Axel Polleres, Simon Steyskal

Published in: Config Workshop

2014

Abstract

Large interconnected technical systems (e.g. railway networks, power grid, computer networks) are typically configured with the help of multiple configurators, which store their configurations in separate databases based on heterogeneous domain models (ontologies). In practice users often want to ask queries over several distributed configurations. In order to reason over these distributed configurations in a uniform manner a mechanism for ontology alignment and data integration is required. In this paper we describe our experience with using standard Semantic Web technologies (RDFS and SPARQL) for data integration and reasoning.