Archive integration at Mattilsynet by Lars Marius Garshol (slides)
In addition to being on the path to become a prominent beer expert (see: http://www.garshol.priv.no/blog/), Lars Marius has long been involved in integration technologies in general and topic maps in particular.
These slides give a quick overview of a current integration project.
There is one point Lars makes that merits special attention:
No hard bindings from code to data model
- code should have no knowledge of the data model
- all data model-specific logic should be configuration
- makes data changes much easier to handle
(slide 4)
Keep that in mind when evaluating ETL solutions. What is being hard coded?
PS: I was amused that Lars describes RDF as “Essentially a graph database….” True but the W3C starting marketing that claim only after graph databases had a surge in popularity.
Markup editors are manipulating directed acyclic graphs so I suppose they are graph editors as well. 😉