The Harmony Integration Workbench

Abstract

A key aspect of any data integration endeavor is determining the relationships between the source schemata and the target schema. This schema integration task must be tackled regardless of the integration architecture or mapping formalism. In this paper, we provide a task model for schema integration. We use this breakdown to motivate a workbench for schema integration in which multiple tools share a common knowledge repository. In particular, the workbench facilitates the interoperation of research prototypes for schema matching (which automatically identify likely semantic correspondences) with commercial schema mapping tools (which help produce instance-level transformations). Currently, each of these tools provides its own ad hoc representation of schemata and mappings; combining these tools requires aligning these representations. The workbench provides a common representation so that these tools can more rapidly be combined.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 2008
Accession Number
AD1107295

Entities

People

  • Arnon Rosenthal
  • Chris Wolf
  • Joel Korb
  • Peter Mork

Organizations

  • MITRE Corporation

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  • Autonomy

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  • Algorithms
  • Commerce
  • Computer Programming
  • Computing System Architectures
  • Data Integration
  • Data Mining
  • Databases
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Graphical User Interface
  • Information Retrieval
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Internet
  • Language
  • Natural Language Processing
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  • Computer science
  • Engineering

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