Abstract: Data integration of heterogeneous data sources plays a major role in the development of modern knowledge management systems. Additional enrichment of this data with the use of ontologies opens up completely new possibilities in leveraging the use of semantic technologies, and combining information from existing information systems. This paper presents the architecture and prototype implementation of a semantic integration layer for transparent access to relational data sources through the use of Topic Maps.
This full paper is part oft the session Linked Topic Maps at the TMRA 2009 conference.