Issues in Bridging DB IR.ppt

Issues in Bridging DB IR 11/21 Administrivia Homework 4 socket open *PLEASE* start working. There may not be a week extra time before submission Considering making Homework 4 subsume the second exam—okay? Topics coming up DB/IR (1.5 classes); Collection Selection (.5 classes) Social Network Analysis (1 class); Webservices (1 class) Interactive review/Summary (last class) Integration of autonomous data sources Data/information integration Technically has to handle heterogeneous data too But we will sort of assume that the sources are “quasi-relational” Supporting heterogeneous data (combinin