Ontologies and Databases: myths and challenges
Summary: Ontology as logical constraints over database instances, serving as a conceptual model and set of dependencies. Through a real-world tool and data-access scenarios, it shows how a logic-based ontology mediates user needs and data in modern DB systems. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
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- 1. Enrico Franconi (Free University of Bolzano)
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@article{franconi_vldb08,
title = {{Ontologies and Databases: myths and challenges}},
author = {Franconi, Enrico},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '08},
doi = {10.14778/1454159.1454218},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1454159.1454218},
year = {2008}
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| 1,660 | On the Decidability of Query Containment under Constraints | 1998 | PODS | 9.9592164e-05 |
| 2,044 | Views and Queries: Determinacy and Rewriting | 2005 | PODS | 9.137464e-05 |
| 2,574 | Rewriting Queries Using Views in Description Logics | 1997 | PODS | 8.278796e-05 |
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