Semantic Integration Research in the Database Community: A Brief Survey

Authors: 
Doan, A.; Halevy, A.
Author: 
Doan, A
Halevy, A
Year: 
2005
Venue: 
AI Magazine, Special Issue on Semantic Integration, 2005
URL: 
http://www.dit.unitn.it/~p2p/RelatedWork/Matching/si-survey-db-community.pdf
Citations: 
406
Citations range: 
100 - 499
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Semantic integration has been a long-standing challenge
for the database community. It has received
steady attention over the past two decades, and has
now become a prominent area of database research.
In this article, we first review database applications
that require semantic integration, and discuss the difficulties underlying the integration process. We then
describe recent progress and identify open research issues.
We will focus in particular on schema matching, a
topic that has received much attention in the database
community, but will also discuss data matching (e.g.,
tuple deduplication), and open issues beyond the match
discovery context (e.g., reasoning with matches, match
verification and repair, and reconciling inconsistent
data values). For previous surveys of database research
on semantic integration, see (Rahm & Bernstein 2001;
Ouksel & Seth 1999; Batini, Lenzerini, & Navathe
1986).