The El的ephant, the Blind Men, and the Semantic Web.pptVIP

* * * * * * * Widgets and Services * Sensors are coming … “Soon we’ll have trillions of sensors, …” Michael R. Nelson, Director of Internet Technology and Strategy, IBM 100 Million 1 Billion 10 Billion 100 Billion Number 1990 2000 2010 2020 Year Source: National Research Council USA PCs Mobile phones Sensors Last but not least: Standardisation! * * * * Picture of elephant is borrowed from Eric Miller’s slides (SWWS’01 invited talk) * The Mouse; Word Processing; Data Sharing; voice video 4 minutes * The Mouse; Word Processing; Data Sharing; voice video 4 minutes * The Mouse; Word Processing; Data Sharing; voice video 4 minutes * The Mouse; Word Processing; Data Sharing; voice video 4 minutes * The Mouse; Word Processing; Data Sharing; voice video 4 minutes * The Mouse; Word Processing; Data Sharing; voice video 4 minutes * The Mouse; Word Processing; Data Sharing; voice video 4 minutes * The Mouse; Word Processing; Data Sharing; voice video 4 minutes * The Mouse; Word Processing; Data Sharing; voice video 4 minutes * * * * * * DAta Integration is the set of techniques that enable a uniform access to a set of data autonomous and heterogeneous Data sources * Efforts for the high-level spec of wrappers and meds have also been done in the past. However, they mainly focused on int of databases while my work deals with the integration of arb info sources, hence facing two new challenges: [PUT SLIDE] First, the system must be able to integrate src’s that without having a Well-Structured Schema. that describes these src’s. There are at least two good reasons for this req. First, there are many src’s exporting semi data, that is data that are very irregular, deeply nested and cr in complicated ways. The Web is typical xmpl but we can see more in the blue column. It is very diff to model these data with a relational or strongly typed OO schema and apply existing technologies for their int. However, even if src’s have a reg schema it may not be a good