Galaxy: Encouraging data sharing among sources with schema variants

Authors: 
Mork, P; Seligman, L; Morse, M.;Rosenthal, A;
Author: 
Mork, P
Seligman, L
Morse, M.
Rosenthal, A.
Wolf, C.
Hoyt, J.
Year: 
2009
Venue: 
Proc. ICDE Conf. (Demo paper)
URL: 
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1546683.1547392
Citations: 
7
Citations range: 
1 - 9
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This demonstration presents Galaxy, a schema manager that facilitates easy and correct data sharing among autonomous but related, evolving data sources. Galaxy reduces heterogeneity by helping database developers identify, reuse, customize, and advertise related schema components. The central idea is that as schemata are customized, Galaxy maintains a derivation graph, and exploits it for matching, data exchange, discovery, and multidatabase query over the “galaxy” of related data sources. Using a set of schemata from the biomedical domain, we demonstrate how Galaxy facilitates schema and data sharing.