Ontology-Driven Automated Generation of Data Entry Interfaces to Databases

Cannon, A.; Kennedy, J. B.; Paterson, T.; Watson, M. F.

Abstract

This paper discusses an ontology based approach for the automatic generation of data entry interfaces to databases. An existing domain ontology is mapped to a system domain model, which a domain expert can then specialise using their domain expertise, for their data entry needs as required for individual projects. Based on this specialised domain knowledge, the system automatically generates appropriate data entry interfaces with the aid of a presentation model. By constraining the data entered to a term definition ontology and utilising appropriate defined domain terminology the quality of the collected data can be improved. Compared with traditional modelbased user automatic interface development environments, this approach also has the potential to reduce the labour requirements for the expert developer, as the applied ontology provides initial domain knowledge to the system.

Citation

Cannon, A., Kennedy, J. B., Paterson, T., & Watson, M. F. (2004). Ontology-Driven Automated Generation of Data Entry Interfaces to Databases. In H. Williams, & L. Mackinnon (Eds.), Key Technologies for Data Management; Lecture Notes in Computer Science (150-164). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27811-5_15

• Conference Name: Key Technologies for Data Management (Proc. BNCOD21): Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3112
• Conference Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
• Start Date: Jul 7, 2004
• End Date: Jul 9, 2004
• Publication Date: 2004
• Deposit Date: Oct 27, 2009
• Publicly Available Date: Oct 27, 2009
• Electronic ISSN: 1611-3349
• Publisher: Springer
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 150-164
• Series Title: Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• Series Number: 3112
• Series ISSN: 0302-9743
• Book Title: Key Technologies for Data Management; Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• ISBN: 9783540223825
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27811-5_15
• Keywords: Domain ontology; Data entry interfaces; Automation; Database use; Computer programming
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/3022
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-27811-5_15