Principles of Data Integration

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Integration in Support of Collaboration

Up to this point in the book, we have focused on data integration scenarios where data creation and editing (at the sources) and data usage (via querying) are separate: those who query the data through the integration system are generally not able to create and update data. Under such scenarios, the users are primarily concerned with being able to pose queries, get results, and act upon those results. In the business world, the users might be account representatives who contact clients; in the scientific realm, the users might be biologists who need to consult protein and gene databases to conduct an experiment.

Of course, Web 2.0 applications, particularly Wikipedia, have shown an entirely different ...