Another Word For It Patrick Durusau on Topic Maps and Semantic Diversity

July 28, 2010

Don’t Scrap It, Wrap It! A Wrapper Architecture for Legacy Data Sources (1997)

Filed under: Data Integration,Database,Semantic Diversity,Software — Patrick Durusau @ 7:54 pm

Don’t Scrap It, Wrap It! A Wrapper Architecture for Legacy Data Sources (1997) by Mary Tork Roth isn’t the latest word on wrappers but is well written. (longer version, A Wrapper Architecture for Legacy Data Sources (1997) )

The wrapper idea is a good one, although Roth uses it in the context of a unified schema, which is then queried. With a topic map, you could query on the basis of any of the underlying schemas and get the data from all the underlying data sources.

That result is possible because a topic map has one representative for a subject and can have any number of sources for information about that single subject.

I haven’t done a user survey but suspect most users would prefer to search for/access data using familiar schemas rather than new “unified” schemas.

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