Most proposed approaches on data integration rely on the notion of a global schema to provide a unified and consistent view of the underlying data sources. While it has been successful for data warehouses, the effort to integrate new sources usually is high. This makes it difficult for such approaches to scale to many sources. Furthermore, for virtual data integration it is challenging to obtain a good data quality.
Our work on web data integration focusses on dynamic information fusion of data sources available on the web. Similar to the idea of mashups, we want to achieve a fast development of data integration applications by reusing existing services and entity search engines within a workflow-like data integration. Integration workflows are defined using a script language supporting powerful generic operators.
Projects
Our work on web data integration contains the following projects:
- With iFuice [1] we developed an approach to information fusion of data sources using instance based peer-to-peer mappings between them.
- Object Matching [2] is a crucial task in data integration systems. Our MOMA [3] framework can be used for defining object matching workflows in a mapping-based P2P environment.
- Data Integration Applications: Based on the results of the above mentioned projects we design and implement several domain-specific applications, e.g., BioFuice [4] for the integration of biological data. Based on bibliographic data source we also performed comprehensive citation analysis of database publications [5].
- We currently work on a mashup framework [6] that aims for supporting online (ad-hoc) data integration in dynamic web applications.
Project Members
- Prof. Dr. Erhard Rahm [7]
- Andreas Thor [8]
- David Aumueller [9]
- Hong-Hai Do
- Nick Golovin
- Toralf Kirsten [10]
- Hanna Köpcke [11]
Publications
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[13] | [14] | Thor, A. [15]; Rahm, E. [16] CloudFuice: A flexible Cloud-based Data Integration System [17] Proc. of 10th Intl. Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE), 2011 2011-06 [18] |
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[20] | [21] | Rahm, E. [22]; Thor, A. [23]; Aumueller, D. [24] Dynamic Fusion of Web Data [25] Proc. 5th Intl. XML Database Symposium (XSym), 2007 2007-09 [26] |
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[28] | [29] | Thor, Andreas [30]; Aumueller, David [31]; Rahm, Erhard [32] Data Integration Support for Mashups [33] Proc. 6th Intl. Workshop on Information Integration on the Web (IIWeb), 2007 2007-07 [34] |
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[36] | [37] | Kirsten, T. [38]; Thor, A. [39]; Rahm, E. [40] Instance-based matching of large life science ontologies [41] Proc. of 4th Intl. Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS), 2007 2007-06 [42] |
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[44] | [45] | Thor, A. [46]; Kirsten, T. [47]; Rahm, E. [48] Instance-based matching of hierarchical ontologies [49] Proc. of 12. GI-Fachtagung für Datenbanksysteme in Business, Technologie und Web (BTW), 2007 2007-03 [50] |
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[52] | [53] | Köpcke, H. [54]; Rahm, E. [55] Analyse von Zitierungshäufigkeiten für die Datenbankkonferenz BTW [56] Datenbank-Spektrum, 7. Jahrgang, Heft 20 2007-02 [57] |
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[59] | [60] | Thor, A. [61]; Rahm, E. [62] MOMA - A Mapping-based Object Matching System [63] Proc. 3rd Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR), 2007 2007-01 [64] |
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[67] | [68] | Kirsten, Toralf [69]; Rahm, Erhard [70] BioFuice: Mapping-based data integration in bioinformatics [71] Proc. of 3rd Int. Workshop on Data Integration in the Life Sciences (DILS), Springer LNCS 4075, 2006 2006-07 [72] |
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[75] | [76] | Rahm, E. [77]; Thor, A. [78] Citation analysis of database publications [79] ACM Sigmod Record 24(4), 2005 2005-12 [80] |
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[82] | [83] | Rahm, E. [84]; Thor, A. [85]; Aumueller, D. [86]; Do, H.H. [87]; Golovin, N. [88]; Kirsten, T. [89] iFuice - Information Fusion utilizing Instance Correspondences and Peer Mappings [90] Proc. 8th Intl. Workshop on the Web and Databases (WebDB), 2005 2005-06 [91] |
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[92] | [93] | Kirsten, T. [94]; Rahm, E. [95] BioFuice: A decentralized Approach to integrate molecular-biological Data [96] Proc 4th Research Festival for Life Sciences, Leipzig, Dec. 2005 2005 [97] |
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Links:
[1] http://dbs.uni-leipzig.de/de/research/projects/data_integration/ifuice
[2] http://dbs.uni-leipzig.de/de/research/projects/data_integration/moma
[3] http://dbs.uni-leipzig.de/de/research/projects/data_integration/moma
[4] http://dbs.uni-leipzig.de/de/publication/title/biofuice_mapping_based_data_integration_in_bioinformatics
[5] https://old.dbs.uni-leipzig.de/de//research/projects/citation_analysis
[6] https://old.dbs.uni-leipzig.de/de//research/projects/data_integration/mashups
[7] https://old.dbs.uni-leipzig.de/de//person/prof_dr_erhard_rahm
[8] https://old.dbs.uni-leipzig.de/de//person/andreas_thor
[9] https://old.dbs.uni-leipzig.de/de//person/david_aumueller
[10] https://old.dbs.uni-leipzig.de/de//person/toralf_kirsten
[11] https://old.dbs.uni-leipzig.de/de//person/hanna_koepcke
[12] https://old.dbs.uni-leipzig.de/file/CloudFuice_ICWE2011_final.pdf
[13] http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=+Thor+Rahm+intitle%3A%22CloudFuice%3A+A+flexible+Cloud-based+Data+Integration+System%22
[14] https://old.dbs.uni-leipzig.de/de/publication/title/cloudfuice_a_flexible_cloud_based_data_integration_system
[15] https://old.dbs.uni-leipzig.de/de/publication/author/Thor, A
[16] https://old.dbs.uni-leipzig.de/de/publication/author/Rahm, E
[17] https://old.dbs.uni-leipzig.de/de/publication/title/cloudfuice_a_flexible_cloud_based_data_integration_system
[18] https://old.dbs.uni-leipzig.de/de/publication/year/2011
[19] https://old.dbs.uni-leipzig.de/file/xsym07-rahm.pdf
[20] http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=+Rahm+Thor+Aumueller+intitle%3A%22Dynamic+Fusion+of+Web+Data%22
[21] https://old.dbs.uni-leipzig.de/de/publication/title/dynamic_fusion_of_web_data
[22] https://old.dbs.uni-leipzig.de/de/publication/author/Rahm, E
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[24] https://old.dbs.uni-leipzig.de/de/publication/author/Aumueller, D
[25] https://old.dbs.uni-leipzig.de/de/publication/title/dynamic_fusion_of_web_data
[26] https://old.dbs.uni-leipzig.de/de/publication/year/2007
[27] https://old.dbs.uni-leipzig.de/file/IIWeb2007_final.pdf
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[32] https://old.dbs.uni-leipzig.de/de/publication/author/Rahm, E
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[34] https://old.dbs.uni-leipzig.de/de/publication/year/2007
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[50] https://old.dbs.uni-leipzig.de/de/publication/year/2007
[51] https://old.dbs.uni-leipzig.de/file/Zitierungshaeufigkeiten_BTW.pdf
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[53] https://old.dbs.uni-leipzig.de/de/publication/title/analyse_von_zitierungshaeufigkeiten_fuer_die_datenbankkonferenz_btw
[54] https://old.dbs.uni-leipzig.de/de/publication/author/Köpcke, H
[55] https://old.dbs.uni-leipzig.de/de/publication/author/Rahm, E
[56] https://old.dbs.uni-leipzig.de/de/publication/title/analyse_von_zitierungshaeufigkeiten_fuer_die_datenbankkonferenz_btw
[57] https://old.dbs.uni-leipzig.de/de/publication/year/2007
[58] https://old.dbs.uni-leipzig.de/file/MOMA_CIDR2007.pdf
[59] http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=+Thor+Rahm+intitle%3A%22MOMA+-+A+Mapping-based+Object+Matching+System%22
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[65] https://old.dbs.uni-leipzig.de/file/BioFuice-Mapping-based-data-integration-in-bioinformatics_2006_Lecture-Notes-in-Computer-Science.pdf
[66] http://lips.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/pub/2006-6
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