An Open Approach for Data Integration

摘要

Data integration, also called sometimes object-oriented interoperability, aims at adapting ex-isting data structure, and data instances to achieve software systems interoperabil.ty. In tins paper, data integration is viewed as a process that attempts to build a subtype, nlationship between two data structures. The source data structure is the current representation of data a software system A, has created aid the target one is the data representation admitted as input by a software system As. The objective of the data integration process is to render 5,'s outputs conform to b2 s inputs, le. object-oriented mteroperabMy, as opposed to process-oriented interoperability, adapts data rather than the software system's code.