A Pay-As-You-Go Methodology for Ontology-Based Data Access

A successfully repeated use case for Semantic Web technologies is Ontology-Based Data Access for data integration. In this approach, an ontology serves as a uniform conceptual federating model, which is accessible to both IT developers and business users. Here, two challenges for developing an OBDA system are considered: ontology and mapping engineering, along with a pay-as-you-go methodology that addresses these challenges and enables agility.