The relational database model is widely used in real applications. We propose a way of complementing such a database with
an XML data warehouse. The approach we propose is generic, and driven by a domain ontology. The XML data warehouse is built
from data extracted from the Web, which are semantically tagged using terms belonging to the domain ontology. The semantic
tagging is fuzzy, since, instead of tagging the values of the Web document with one value of the domain ontology, we propose
to use tags expressed in terms of a possibility distribution representing a set of possible terms, each term being weighted
by a possibility degree. The querying of the XML data warehouse is also fuzzy: the end-users can express their preferences
by means of fuzzy selection criteria. We present our approach on a first application domain: predictive microbiology.
Keywords Flexible querying - Semantic tagging - Fuzzy data