A Privacy Preserving Repository for Data Integration across Data Sharing Services

Current data sharing and integration among various organizations require a central and trusted authority to collect data from all data sources and then integrate the collected data. This process tends to complicate the update of data and to compromise data sources' privacy. In this paper, a repository for integrating data from various data sharing services without central authorities is presented. With our repository, data sharing services can update and control the access and limit the usage of their shared data, instead of submitting data to authorities, and, hence, our repository will promote data sharing and integration. The major differences between our repository and existing central authorities are: 1) Our repository collects data from data sharing services based on users' integration requirements rather than all the data from the data sharing services as existing central authorities. 2) While existing central authorities have full control of the collected data, the ca...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2008
• Where: TSC
• Authors: Stephen S. Yau, Yin Yin
• Keywords: Central Authorities, Data Sharing Services, Repository, TSC 2008