Towards semantic-based web application for academic programmes in Croatia

With increasing student mobility and boom of the international student exchange programmes, a need arises for unifying and presenting information about academic study programmes on the Web. Publishing study programmes using semantic web technologies enables students to easily search and select study topic of their interest. In this paper, we discuss the way to transform data from production-grade information system´s relational database to semantic data. The process of transforming starts with building ontology for describing study programmes. Data from relational database is mapped to the semantic model. Finally, we present the study programmes from semantic model which are used by the web application. Project presented in this paper took first step in introducing ISVU to semantic web and demonstrated possibility to integrate data about academic programmes.