Incremental schema integration for data wrangling via knowledge graphs

Virtual data integration is the current approach to go for data wrangling in data-driven decision-making. In this paper, we focus on automating schema integration, which extracts a homogenised representation of the data source schemata and integrates them into a global schema to enable virtual data...

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Autores: Flores Herrera, Javier de Jesús|||0000-0002-2998-9962, Rabbani, Kashif, Nadal Francesch, Sergi|||0000-0002-8565-952X, Gómez Seoane, Cristina|||0000-0002-3872-0439, Romero Moral, Óscar|||0000-0001-6350-8328, Jamin, Emmanuel, Dasiopoulou, Stamatia
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/390416
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/390416
https://dx.doi.org/10.3233/SW-233347
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Big data
Decision-making
Schema integration
Bootstrapping
Virtual data integration
Dades massives
Decisió, Presa de
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Sistemes d'informació
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Sumario:Virtual data integration is the current approach to go for data wrangling in data-driven decision-making. In this paper, we focus on automating schema integration, which extracts a homogenised representation of the data source schemata and integrates them into a global schema to enable virtual data integration. Schema integration requires a set of well-known constructs: the data source schemata and wrappers, a global integrated schema and the mappings between them. Based on them, virtual data integration systems enable fast and on-demand data exploration via query rewriting. Unfortunately, the generation of such constructs is currently performed in a largely manual manner, hindering its feasibility in real scenarios. This becomes aggravated when dealing with heterogeneous and evolving data sources. To overcome these issues, we propose a fully-fledged semi-automatic and incremental approach grounded on knowledge graphs to generate the required schema integration constructs in four main steps: bootstrapping, schema matching, schema integration, and generation of system-specific constructs. We also present NextiaDI, a tool implementing our approach. Finally, a comprehensive evaluation is presented to scrutinize our approach.