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 * Copyright (c) 2013/2014 Verein zur Foerderung der IT-Sicherheit in Oesterreich (SBA).

 * 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;

}