Data integration systems often provide a uniform query interface, called a mediated schema, to a multitude of data sources. To answer user queries, such systems employ a set of se...
Nowadays, increasing needs for information sharing arise due to extensive collaborations among organizations. Organizations desire to provide data access to their collaborators whi...
Fengjun Li, Bo Luo, Peng Liu, Anna Cinzia Squiccia...
We describe a framework called the Uni-Level Description (ULD) for accurately representing information from a broad range of data models. The ULD extends previous metadata-model a...
Dataspace applications necessitate the creation of associations among data items over time. For example, once information about people is extracted from sources on the Web, associa...
Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, Jens Dittrich, Lukas Bl...
Background: Due to the complex and distributed nature of biological research, our current biological knowledge is spread over many redundant annotation databases maintained by man...
Brad T. Sherman, Da Wei Huang, Qina Tan, Yongjian ...