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Henrik Wingerei: Distribusjon og integrasjon av folkeregisterdata med semantisk teknologi. Masteroppgave. 2012
Resymé: Denne oppgaven presenterer en ny distribusjonsmodell for Folkeregisteret, som anvender semantiske teknologier. Oppgaven viser hvordan folkeregisterdata kan konverteres til RDF på en konservativ måte og videre hvordan ontologier kan utvikles basert på dokumentasjon fra Skattedirektoratet og NAV. Til slutt vises det hvordan en ny distribusjonsløsning som distribuerer folkeregisterdataene gjennom et SPARQL-endepunkt og et RESTfullt grensesnitt kan implementeres.
Charlotte Løvdahl: A comparison of information modeling in ORM and OWL. Master's Thesis, 2011
Abstract: The Semicolon II project looks at ways to enhance the interoperability between Norwegian government institutions by using metadata and conceptual models. The Web Ontology Language (OWL) has been chosen to create the metadata models for these institutions. This thesis focuses on comparing Web Ontology Language (OWL) and Object Role Modeling (ORM). ORM is a well established modeling language in comparison to OWL which is relatively young. Their capability and suitability to create information models are investigated with a mapping from ORM to OWL. This mapping revealed that OWL can construct most of the constraints in ORM, except for the Equivalence-Of-Path constraint. The Open World Assumption in OWL complicates information modeling by not forcing restrictions on classes. This allows for incomplete information: information which is expected, but not found, is stated as unknown. Thus a model can violate the rules on which it is built. How to deal with this disadvantage is a topic for future research. The languages ability to support and underpin the information systems they model are investigated by researching tools that combine data from databases with the models. There are, to our knowledge, no tools for ORM which allows its models to connect to data in a database, while OWL has several. Based on a survey of available tools, we have chosen to apply the tool D2RQ. The result is an OWL model with a bridge to the data in the database. This allows the information system to use the database’s strengths on query performance and storage. In addition the populated model can be reasoned over and put on the Web for easy sharing.