A framework for abstracting data sources having heterogeneous representation formats

  • Authors:
  • D. Rosaci;G. Terracina;D. Ursino

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Informatica, Matematica, Elettronica e Trasporti Università "Mediterranea" di Reggio Calabria, Via Grazielle Localita Feo di Vito, 89060 Reggio Calabria, Italy;Dipartimento di Matematica Università della Calabria, 87036 Reggio Calabria, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica, Matematica, Elettronica e Trasporti Università "Mediterranea" di Reggio Calabria, Via Grazielle Localita Feo di Vito, 89060 Reggio Calabria, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Data & Knowledge Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

This paper deals with the issue of abstracting a data source characterized by one among several possible representation formats. First we show that data source abstraction plays a central role in several important application problems in the area of information system design. Then we propose a new approach which is capable of semi-automatically carrying out the abstraction of a data source possibly encoded according to one among a variety of formats such as structured databases, OEM graphs and XML documents. The capability to handle heterogeneous formats is obtained via the usage of a particular conceptual model, called SDR-Network, which is able to uniformly represent and handle data sources with different formats. As a significant application of the presented data source abstraction algorithm, the construction of an Intensional Repository is also illustrated.