Title :
Retrieving and semantically integrating heterogeneous data from the Web
Author :
Michalowski, Martin ; Ambite, José Luis ; Thakkar, Snehal ; Tuchinda, Rattapoom ; Knoblock, Craig A. ; Minton, Steve
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Southern California, CA, USA
Abstract :
Building Finder uses semantic Web technologies to integrate different data types from various online data sources. The application´s use of the RDF and RDF data query language makes it usable by computer agents as well as human users. An agent would send a query, expressed in terms of its preferred ontology (schema), to a system that would then find and integrate the relevant data from multiple sources and return it using the agent´s ontology. We discuss about retrieving and semantically integrating heterogeneous data from the Web.
Keywords :
data integrity; information retrieval; query languages; query processing; semantic Web; software agents; Building Finder; RDF data query language; computer agent; data integration; data retrieval; heterogeneous data; online data source; query processing; semantic Web; semantic integration; software agents; Buildings; Graphical user interfaces; Humans; Image databases; Information retrieval; Navigation; Ontologies; Resource description framework; Satellites; Semantic Web; Semantic Web; global information systems; heterogeneous databases; intelligent Web services; spatial databases;
Journal_Title :
Intelligent Systems, IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/MIS.2004.16