Federated database systems for managing distributed, heterogeneous, and autonomous databases
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) - Special issue on heterogeneous databases
Interoperability of multiple autonomous databases
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) - Special issue on heterogeneous databases
Template-based wrappers in the TSIMMIS system
SIGMOD '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
OMG overview: CORBA and the OMA in enterprise computing
Communications of the ACM
A hierarchical approach to wrapper induction
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An XJML-based wrapper generator for Web information extraction
SIGMOD '99 Proceedings of the 1999 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
XML-based information mediation for digital libraries
Proceedings of the fourth ACM conference on Digital libraries
Information Retrieval Application Service Definition and Protocol Specification for Open Systems Interconnection, Z39.50-1995
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VLDB '97 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
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COOPIS '98 Proceedings of the 3rd IFCIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems
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BNCOD 26 Proceedings of the 26th British National Conference on Databases: Dataspace: The Final Frontier
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KES'10 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Knowledge-based and intelligent information and engineering systems: Part IV
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Transactions on Computational Systems Biology IV
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In the SPICE project we are building a distributed catalogue of life, which will eventually be formed from up to 200 autonomous taxonomic databases. We are faced with a number of challenges, which include the scalability of the system; the accommodation of partial or missing data; queries which are potentially very expensive computationally, where it is difficult to determine which databases will contain data matching the queries, and the effective integration of heterogeneous databases at the knowledge level. In this paper we present the architecture on which SPICE is being built, and we explain how, within our SPICE architecture, we will be able to explore and develop new techniques to enhance access to the SPICE distributed database.