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        <article-title>Information Integration: a Vision for Integration Independence and Linking Open Data</article-title>
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          <string-name>Renee J. Miller</string-name>
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      <p>To integrate information, data in di erent formats, from di erent, potentially
overlapping sources, must be related and transformed to meet the users’ needs.
Ten years ago, Clio introduced a new paradigm for creating declarative schema
mappings to describe the relationship between data in heterogeneous schemas.
This enabled powerful tools for mapping discovery and integration code
generation, greatly simplifying the integration process. In this talk, I take a look at
where our eld was a decade ago and where it is now in terms of support for data
integration. I share a vision for raising the level of abstraction further, to
better isolate applications from the details of how the integration is accomplished.
Integration independence allows applications to be independent of how, when,
and where information integration takes place, making materialization and the
timing of transformations an optimization decision that is transparent to
applications. I identify a number of research challenges that remain to be addressed
in order to ultimately achieve this vision.</p>
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