Mediation to Deal with Heterogeneous Data Sources

  • Gio Wiederhold
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Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 1580)

Abstract

The objective of interoperation is to increase the value of information when information from multiple sources is accessed, related, and combined. However, care is required to realize this benefit. One problem to be addressed in this context is that a simple integration over the ever-expanding number of resources available on-line leads to what customers perceive as information overload. In actuality, the customers experience data overload, making it nearly impossible for them to extract relevant points of information out of a huge haystack of data.

Keywords

Digital Library Source Domain Articulation Point Heterogeneous Data Source Heterogeneous Information Source 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Gio Wiederhold
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  1. 1.Department of Computer ScienceStanford UniversityStanford

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