Research of Oracle Bone Inscriptions ontology construction based on relational database

According to the difficulty of Oracle Bone Inscriptions(OBI) knowledge sharing, a scenario of OBI ontology construction is proposed. Because of the hard work of ontology building, a transformation method from existing OBI database to ontology is discussed. Firstly, analysed the similarity between entity-relationship model and RDF model. Secondly, introduced the transformation ideas and process. Finally, implemented OBI ontology by using the transformation method. It is a semi-automatic method because there requires manual intervention during the process of transformation. Results show that the method can really reduce the burden of ontology researchers.