In the 21st century, digital libraries will have a tremendous positive impact on education, as
sharing of learning resources increases, supporting not only distance education but also on …

In semistructured data, the information that is normally associated with a schema is
contained within the data, which is sometimes called “self-describing”. In some forms of …

Model management is a generic approach to solving problems of data programmability
where precisely engineered map**s are required. Applications include data warehousing …

Biological knowledge can be inferred from three major levels of information: molecules,
organisms and ecologies. Bioinformatics is an established field that has made significant …

Vast amounts of life sciences data reside today in specialized data sources, with specialized
query processing capabilities. Data from one source often must be combined with data from …

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The integrated access to heterogeneous data sources is a major challenge for the
biomedical community. Several solution strategies have been explored: link-driven …

The Web has become a major conduit to information repositories of all kinds. Today, more
than 80% of information published on the Web is generated by underlying databases …

Kleisli is a modern data integration system that has made a significant impact on
bioinformatics data integration. This paper contains a brief introduction to the Kleisli system …

We are entering a new era of research where the latest scientific discoveries are often first
reported online and are readily accessible by scientists worldwide. This rapid electronic …