Profiling data to determine metadata about a given dataset is an important and frequent
activity of any IT professional and researcher and is necessary for various use-cases. It …

An ontology typically provides a vocabulary describing a domain of interest and a
specification of the meaning of terms in that vocabulary. Depending on the precision of this …

The increasing demand of matching and mapping tasks in modern integration scenarios has
led to a plethora of tools for facilitating these tasks. While the plethora made these tools …

Data profiling comprises a broad range of methods to efficiently analyze a given data set. In
a typical scenario, which mirrors the capabilities of commercial data profiling tools, tables of …

Data profiling refers to the activity of collecting data about data,{ie}, metadata. Most IT
professionals and researchers who work with data have engaged in data profiling, at least …

The purely manual specification of semantic correspondences between schemas is almost
infeasible for very large schemas or when many different schemas have to be matched …

Schema Matching, ie the process of discovering semantic correspondences between
concepts adopted in different data source schemas, has been a key topic in Database and …

Schema matching is the process of establishing correspondences between the attributes of
database schemas for data integration purposes. Although several automatic schema …

OpenII (openintegration. org) is a collaborative effort to create a suite of open-source tools
for information integration (II). The project is leveraging the latest developments in II …

As the number of publicly-available datasets are likely to grow, the demand of establishing
the links between these datasets is also getting higher and higher. For creating such links …