• Journal of KIISE:Computing Practices and Letters
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.610-622
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• 2003

Metadata Registry was developed to dynamically manage metadata and to increase interoperability between various and heterogeneous metadata. The built metadata registry can be used as a standard guideline for creation of new databases and it provides a radical data integration mechanism. However, in the situation that an enormous databases must be integrated progressively, there is a limit to the existing metadata-based approach. In case that each database has no statistical information for its use rate and the restricted cost is given to us for a unit time, existing metadata-based approaches do not provide how to select some databases to be preferentially integrated and to build a metadata registry progressively, In this paper, we propose a methodology that can create progressively metadata registries in the case. The proposed methodology is based on data visibility and hierarchical metadata registry. We also describe the system that have been developed for applying the methodology to a real domain, and then described its results.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.04a
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• pp.740-742
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• 2003

오랜 기간동안 메타데이터를 기반으로 한 데이터통합에 대한 많은 연구들이 진행되어 왔다. 그러나 기존 방법론들은 전역 뷰 또는 전역 스키마와 같은 초기 가이드라인을 구축하는데 많은 비용이 요구 된다는 단점이 있다. 이는 기존 연구들이 해당 도메인 특성들을 간과했기 때문이다. 예를 들어 과학 데이터의 경우 일반사용자들은 생물의 이름이나 모양 등과 같은 단순정보에 관심을 갖는 반면 과학자나 전문가들은 보다 상세하고 전문적인 데이터에 관심을 갖는다. 추가적으로 모든 데이터에 대한 초기 표준 가이드라인을 구축하는 것은 현실적으로 많은 어려움이 따른다. 본 논문에서는 이러한 도메인 특성을 고려하여 점진적인 통합방법론(LOG : Localization-based Global metadata registry)을 제안한다.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.10D no.2
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• pp.247-260
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• 2003

To share and standardize information, especially in the database environments, MDR (Metadata Registry) can be used to integrate various heterogeneous databases within a particular domain. But due to the discrepancies of data element representation between organizations, global information integration is not so easy. And users who are searching integrated information on the Web have limitation to obtain schema information for the underlying source databases. To solve those problems, in this paper, we present a 3-layered Information Integration System (LI2S) based on MDRs and Ontology. The purpose of proposed architecture is to define information integration model, which combine both of the nature of MDRs standard specification and functionality of ontology for the concept and relation. Adopting agent technology to the proposed model plays a key role to support the hierarchical and independent information integration architecture. Ontology is used as for a role of semantic network from which it extracts concept from the user query and the establishment of relationship between MDRs for the data element. (MDR and Knowledge Base are used as for the solution of discrepancies of data element representation between MDRs. Based on this architectural concept, LI2S was designed and implemented.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.586-593
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• 2009

As most of the data configuration at distributed environment has a tree structure following the hierarchical classification, relative data retrieve is limited. Among these data, the data stored in a database has a problem in integration and efficient retrieve. Accordingly, we suggest the system that uses XMDR for distributed database integration and links XMDR to TopicMap for efficient retrieve of knowledge expressed hierarchically. We proposes a plan for efficient integration retrieve through using the XMDR which is composed of Meta Semantic Ontology, Instance Semantic Ontology and meta location, solves data heterogeneity and metadata heterogeneity problem and integrates them, and replaces the occurrence of the TopicMap with the Meta Location of the XMDR, which expresses the resource location of TopicMap by linking Meta Semantic Ontology and Instance Semantic Ontology of XMDR to the TopicMap.