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A Software Architecture for XML-Based Metadata Interchange in Data Warehouse Systems

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Interchanging metadata between software components of a data warehouse environment is the foundation for leveraging the various benefits of an integrated metadata management for data warehousing. Besides a common understanding of metadata syntax and semantics, both a standard interchange language and an interchange mechanism for metadata are needed. We therefore propose a software architecture for metadata interchange that incorporates a shared metamodel to agree on metadata syntax and semantics, XML as a standard interchange language, and XML Metadata Interchange (XMI) as a standard interchange mechanism.

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    Gunnar Auth & Eitel von Maur

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Auth, G., von Maur, E. (2002). A Software Architecture for XML-Based Metadata Interchange in Data Warehouse Systems. In: Chaudhri, A.B., Unland, R., Djeraba, C., Lindner, W. (eds) XML-Based Data Management and Multimedia Engineering — EDBT 2002 Workshops. EDBT 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2490. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36128-6_1

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