While big data analytics is considered as one of the most important paths to competitive advantage of today’s enterprises, data scientists spend a comparatively large amount of time in the data preparation and data integration phase of a big data project. This shows that data integration is still a major challenge in IT applications. Over the past two decades, the idea of using semantics for data integration has become increasingly crucial, and has received much attention in the AI, database, web, and data mining communities. Here, we focus on a specific paradigm for semantic data integration, called Ontology-Based Data Access (OBDA). The goal of this paper is to provide an overview of OBDA, pointing out both the techniques that are at the basis of the paradigm, and the main challenges that remain to be addressed.
Dettaglio pubblicazione
2018, A Comprehensive GuideThrough the Italian DatabaseResearch Over the Last25 Years, Pages 187-202
Using Ontologies for Semantic Data Integration (02a Capitolo o Articolo)
DE GIACOMO Giuseppe, Lembo Domenico, Lenzerini Maurizio, Poggi Antonella, Rosati Riccardo
ISBN: 978-3-319-61892-0; 978-3-319-61893-7
Gruppo di ricerca: Data Management and Semantic Technologies
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