
179Linked Data in Enterprise Integration
usually integrate them into a unied view by the means of the extract-trans-
form-load (ETL) paradigm [13]. For example, IBM’s DeepQA framework [8]
combines knowledge from DBpedia,* Freebase,
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and several other knowledge
bases to determine the answer to questions with a speed superior to that of
human champions. A similar view to data integration can be taken within
the Linked Data paradigm with the main difference that the load step can
be discarded when the knowledge bases are not meant to be fused, which
is mostly the case. While the extraction was addressed above, the transfor-
mation remains a comp ...