Relational Databases in RDF: Keys and Foreign Keys [chapter]

Georg Lausen
Lecture Notes in Computer Science  
Today, most of the data on the web resides in relational databases. To make the data available for the semantic web mappings into RDF can be used. Such mappings should preserve the information about the structure of keys and foreign keys, because otherwise important semantic information is lost. In this paper, we discuss several possible ways to map relational databases into an RDF graph. We discuss the problem of how to represent the original key and foreign key constraints in the resulting
more » ... graph and demonstrate, that different kinds of mappings require different solutions. We finally propose to explicitly represent the structure of keys and foreign keys by means of the vocabulary of a new RDF namespace.
doi:10.1007/978-3-540-70960-2_3 fatcat:voseagwswrhzhpeyljbekxlcuy