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

Volume

19

Issue

3

fYear

2004

Firstpage

72

Lastpage

79

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;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Intelligent Systems, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1541-1672

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIS.2004.16

Filename

1315544