LINK INTEGRATOR - A Link-based Data Integration Architecture

Pedro Lopes, Joel Arrais, José Luís Oliveira

2009

Abstract

The evolution of the World Wide Web has created a great opportunity for data production and for the construction of public repositories that can be accessed all over the world. However, as our ability to generate new data grows, there is a dramatic increase in the need for its efficient integration and access to all the dispersed data. In specific fields such as biology and biomedicine, data integration challenges are even more complex. The amount of raw data, the possible data associations, the diversity of concepts and data formats, and the demand for information quality assurance are just a few issues that hinder the development of a general proposal and solid solutions. In this article we describe a lightweight information integration architecture that is capable of unifying, in a single access point, several heterogeneous bioinformatics data sources. The model is based on web crawling that automatically collects keywords related with biological concepts that are previously defined in a navigation protocol. This crawling phase allows the construction of a link-based integration mechanism that conducts users to the right source of information, keeping the original interfaces of available information and maintaining the credits of original data providers.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Lopes P., Arrais J. and Luís Oliveira J. (2009). LINK INTEGRATOR - A Link-based Data Integration Architecture . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2009) ISBN 978-989-674-011-5, pages 274-277. DOI: 10.5220/0002291702740277

in Bibtex Style

@conference{kdir09,
author={Pedro Lopes and Joel Arrais and José Luís Oliveira},
title={LINK INTEGRATOR - A Link-based Data Integration Architecture},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={274-277},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002291702740277},
isbn={978-989-674-011-5},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2009)
TI - LINK INTEGRATOR - A Link-based Data Integration Architecture
SN - 978-989-674-011-5
AU - Lopes P.
AU - Arrais J.
AU - Luís Oliveira J.
PY - 2009
SP - 274
EP - 277
DO - 10.5220/0002291702740277