Standards and Data Integration
Abstract
Standards are sometimes touted as the solution to every data integration issue. Unfortunately, the utility of data standards has been undermined by the proliferation of standards, the frequent versioning of data standards, the intellectual property encumbrances placed upon standards, the tendency for standards to increase in complexity over time, and the idiosyncratic ways in which standards are implemented by data managers. Data specifications are related to data standards, but differ in several important ways. Data specifications do not dictate an exact way of describing every type of data; and specifications provide the general form and descriptive features of a well-described data object. This ...
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