Data integration http://www.semanlink.net/tag/data_integration Documents tagged with Data integration I’ve got a Federated Bridge to Sell You (A Defense of the Warehouse) - semanticweb.com http://semanticweb.com/defending_the_warehouse_b17223#more-17223 This is not at all to say that semantically linking datasets isn’t valuable.  On the contrary!  I believe that coating old, weather-beaten databases with a coat of semantic paint is awesomely valuable.  It makes creating ETL pipelines that bring together data from all kinds of locations a breeze as compared to traditional, relationally-oriented ETL pipelines.  It’s hardly even fair to compare the two approaches, except insofar as the maturity of the traditional technologies is concerned, and I’ll try to pick up on specific reasons for this belief in future posts.  In fact, I see semantics as enabling on-demand datamarts in ways that traditional data integration technologies simply have failed to do 2011-01-07T23:58:23Z Lost Boy: How Shall I Integrate Thee? Let Me Count the Ways... http://www.ldodds.com/blog/archives/000314.html Leigh Dods tries to elucidate the ways in which technologies like RDF and OWL actually help with data integration? 2008-07-06T04:39:52Z