Semantic Integration Technonolgies Survey

Kalfoglou, Y., Hu, B., Reynolds, D. and Shadbolt, N. (2005) Semantic Integration Technonolgies Survey. Technical Report UNSPECIFIED, ECS, University of Southampton.

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Abstract

The and are collaborating in a joint
project, CROSI, to investigate semantic integration. ,
which stands for Capturing, Representing, and Operationalising
Semantic Integration, aims to advance the state-of-the-art for
semantic integration technologies. Semantic integration has become a
much debated topic in today's research agenda, especially with the
advent of the Semantic Web. Its roots, however, go long time back in
history of computer science with early attempts to resolve the
problem found in the database literature of the eighties. It is
concerned with the use of explicit semantic descriptions to
facilitate information and systems integration. Due to the
widespread importance of integration, many disparate communities
have tackled this problem. They have developed a wide variety of
overlapping but complementary technologies and approaches.


In this deliverable we present a comprehensive survey of the
technological landscape in this area. As it is broadly defined and
practiced by a number of diverse communities we aim to highlight
this diversity. We complement and enhance previously published
surveys in this area by focussing on convergence issues and
techniques that can be carried over to similar problems. We also aim
to identify concrete semantic integration cases which help us to
inform a practical set of semantic integration criteria. These could
be used to define desiderata for future semantic integration
systems.

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