A mediator-based approach to ontology generation and querying of molecular and phenotypic cereals data

International Journal of Metadata, Semantics and Ontologies

Volumn 4, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 85-92

  Sala, Antonio ^a   Bergamaschi, Sonia ^a  

^a Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione   (Italy)

Author keywords

CEREALAB; Cereals; Data integration; Mediator; Molecular data; Ontology; Phenotypic data; Querying

Indexed keywords

DATABASE SYSTEMS; ONTOLOGY; QUERY PROCESSING;

CEREALAB; CEREALS; MEDIATOR; MOLECULAR DATA; PHENOTYPIC DATA; QUERYING;

DATA INTEGRATION;

EID: 66949158376     PISSN: 17442621     EISSN: 1744263X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJMSO.2009.026257     Document Type: Article

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