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Large scale engineering and scientific projects demand product and workflow management which may require integration and/or distribution over many separate organisations. The integration of such ‘islands of information’, which ultimately forms the basis of so-called ‘virtual enterprises’, is heavily dependent on the flexibility and accessibility of the data model describing the enterprise’s repository. The model must provide interoperability and reusability so that a range of applications can access the enterprise data. Making the repository self-describing ensures that knowledge about the repository structure is available for applications to interrogate and to navigate around for the extraction of application-specific data. Herein a large application is described which uses a meta-object based repository to capture product and workflow data in an engineering data warehouse. It is shown that adopting a meta-object approach to repository design provides support for interoperability and a suitable environment on which to build data mining applications.
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Estrella, F., Kovacs, Z., Le Goff, JM., McClatchey, R., Willers, I. (1999). The Design of an Engineering Data Warehouse Based on Meta-Object Structures. In: Kambayashi, Y., Lee, D.L., Lim, EP., Mohania, M.K., Masunaga, Y. (eds) Advances in Database Technologies. ER 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1552. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-49121-7_13
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