Ontology based semantic mapping architecture

Integrating with ontology and XML schema, taking advantage of Web service, this paper develops a service oriented information representation architecture & SOIRA to solve the semantic heterogeneity of distributed and semi-structured information. It introduces a mediated semantic schema originating from ontology to XML schema, discusses the multi-matching strategy between the mediated schema and source schemas. The implementation of SOIRA with two kinds of semantic representation services are presented at the end of this paper, which enable interoperability, translation of information, and queries across the representations as well.