Ontology and database mapping enables interoperability of asynchronous systems

Along with the economy development and fierce competition, enterprises realized the importance of collaboration between each other. Researches about enterprises collaboration become hit topic today, as the internet technology's application was adopted in many enterprises business, the key is how to realize the enterprises collaboration in IT ways. Because of the different IT implement level, the foundation and basic question of enterprises collaboration is to resolve interoperability between asynchronous systems. In this article, ontology method was used to realize the interoperability, OWL was used to establish ontology of mechanical accessory as well as OWL-S been used to establish web services. The mapping between ontology and database enabled the realization. In the end a prototype system was developed, which proved the supposed method was correct.