Business decisions must rely not only on company-internal data but also on external data from competitors or relevant events.
This information can be obtained from the WWW but must be integrated with the data in a company’s data warehouse. In this
paper we discuss a system architecture for warehousing Web content for OLAP and DSS. A self-describing object model is used
to make the implicit modeling and context assumptions explicit, both for the data obtained from the Web and the data already
in the data warehouse. A domain-specific ontology provides a common interpretation basis for data and metadata. We propose
an object-relational mapping that takes into consideration the peculiarities of relational data warehouses based on a star
schema and propose a mapping rule language to describe the necessary transformation rules. The system framework described
in this paper has been implemented in Java.