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* The work has been developed in the TIMBUS Project and the above-mentioned are Members of the TIMBUS Consortium.
* TIMBUS is supported by the European Union under the 7th Framework Programme for research and technological
* development and demonstration activities (FP7/2007-2013) under grant agreement no. 269940.
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package org.sba_research.timbus.kb.importer;
import org.sbaresearch.owl.OwlApiFacade;
import org.sbaresearch.owl.OwlElementNotFoundException;
import java.io.IOException;
public interface DataImporter {
/**
* Fetches a information from a datasource in order to populate an ontology.
* The schema of the ontology can be found in ontologies/kb_tool_strategies.owl. This ontology needs to be imported in the
* owl that is to be populated, as it is referenced to it's classes.
*
* @param owl The ontology to populate
* @param kb The namespace of the class elements
* @throws IOException
* @throws OwlElementNotFoundException
* @throws DataImporterException
*/
void populate(OwlApiFacade owl, String kb) throws IOException, OwlElementNotFoundException, DataImporterException;
}