A Metadata Integration Assistant Generator for Heterogeneous Distributed Databases (2002)
| Venue: | Proc. Intl. Conf. on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics for Large Scale Information Systems, volume 2519 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science |
| Citations: | 7 - 4 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Nam02ametadata,
author = {Young-kwang Nam and Joseph Goguen and Guilian Wang},
title = {A Metadata Integration Assistant Generator for Heterogeneous Distributed Databases},
booktitle = {Proc. Intl. Conf. on Ontologies, DataBases, and Applications of Semantics for Large Scale Information Systems, volume 2519 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
year = {2002},
pages = {1332--1344},
publisher = {Springer}
}
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Abstract
This paper describes a metadata interchange approach for semi-automated integration of heterogeneous distributed databases. Our system prototype uses distributed metadata to generate a GUI tool for a meta-user (who does the metadata integration) to describe mappings between master and local databases by assigning index numbers and specifying conversion function names; the system uses Quilt as its XML query language. A DDXMI (for Distributed Database XML Metadata Interface) file is generated based on the mappings, and is used to translate queries over the virtual master database into sub-queries to local databases. An experiment testing feasibility is reported in which 3 different bibliography databases are integrated.
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