TY - GEN
T1 - Automatic Data Transformation: Breaching the Walled Gardens of Social Network Platforms
AU - Wischenbart, Martin
AU - Mitsch, Stefan
AU - Kapsammer, Elisabeth
AU - Kusel, Angelika
AU - Lechner, Stephan
AU - Pröll, Birgit
AU - Retschitzegger, Werner
AU - Schönböck, Johannes
AU - Schwinger, Wieland
AU - Wimmer, Manuel
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - Although many social networks on the Web allow access via dedicated APIs, the extraction of instance data for further use by applications is often a tedious task. As a result, instance data transformation to Linked Data in the form of OWL, as well as the integration with other data sources, are aggravated. To alleviate these problems, this paper proposes a model-driven approach to overcome data model heterogeneity by automatically transforming schemas and instance data from JSON to OWL/XML, utilizing the semantic features of OWL and Jena inference rules. We present a prototypical implementation on the basis of the Eclipse Modeling Framework. This implementation is applied and evaluated on data from Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn. Finally, we provide prospects for semantic integration and managing evolution, as well as a discussion of how to generalize our approach to other domains and transformations between arbitrary technical spaces.
AB - Although many social networks on the Web allow access via dedicated APIs, the extraction of instance data for further use by applications is often a tedious task. As a result, instance data transformation to Linked Data in the form of OWL, as well as the integration with other data sources, are aggravated. To alleviate these problems, this paper proposes a model-driven approach to overcome data model heterogeneity by automatically transforming schemas and instance data from JSON to OWL/XML, utilizing the semantic features of OWL and Jena inference rules. We present a prototypical implementation on the basis of the Eclipse Modeling Framework. This implementation is applied and evaluated on data from Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn. Finally, we provide prospects for semantic integration and managing evolution, as well as a discussion of how to generalize our approach to other domains and transformations between arbitrary technical spaces.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85013952544
M3 - Conference proceedings
SN - 9781921770289
VL - 143
T3 - Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series
SP - 89
EP - 98
BT - Proceedings of the 9th Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modelling (APCCM 2013)
A2 - Grossmann, Georg
A2 - Ferrarotti, Flavio
ER -