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| IIT Intranet
Mediator
The IIT Intranet Mediator is a data mediator designed specifically for an intranet, where data reconciliation and integration can be completed long before a query is executed, given the presence of a data warehouse. The consequent freeing of the mediator from the duties of schema reconciliation and data conflict resolution, which are main concerns of the mediator's web counterparts (i.e. metasearch engines), allows other key issues to be addressed. The IIT Intranet Mediator is capable of integrating a variety of data sources, ranging in type from structured and semistructured to unstructured. Unstructured data sources are simulated using various web search engines, which introduces a metasearch subsystem into the engine, while databases and XML repositories simulate structured and semistructured data sources, respectively. The engine is implemented in pure Java, which allows it to be easily ported to any operating environment Papers |
