Research and Application on Oilfield Product Heterogeneous Data Integration Based on Ontology

The Oil & Gas industry is moving forward with Integrated Operations (IO). There are different ways to achieve data integration, and ontology-based approaches have drawn much attention. This paper introduces an ontology-based distributed data integration framework (ODDIF). The framework resolves the problem of semantic interoperability between heterogeneous data sources in semantic level. By metadatas specifying the distributed, heterogeneous data and by describing semantic information of data source , having "ontology" as a common semantic model, semantic match is established through ontology mapping between heterogeneous data sources and semantic difference institutions are shielded, so that semantic heterogeneity problem of the heterogeneous data sources can be effectively solved. The proposed method reduces developing difficulty, improves developing efficiency, and enhances the maintainability and expandability of the system.