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WebFindit: Database Ontologies Over the Web Presented at the the DG.0 2000 conference (May 2000) Ahmed Elmagarmid, Purdue University Athman Bouguettaya, Virginia Polytechnic
Institute WebFINDIT aims to achieve scalability through the incremental formation and discovery of inter-relationships between Web accessible databases. Ontologies of databases are established through the sharing of high level meta-information, and individual databases join and leave these clusters at their own discretion. Users are incrementally and dynamically educated about the available information space without being presented with all available information. We take advantage of this architecture by using the information meta-type as a unit of data sharing. Databases, therefore, need only show and map the information types that need to be shared. The goal of this project is to build a WWW-centric infrastructure to elicit interoperation of Web and Internet accessible databases. This infrastructure would logically present users with one single database whose components will span every database site that is connected to the WWW.
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