Key Features
*Offers a range of data integration solutions enabling you to focus on what is most relevant to the problem at hand.
*Enables you to build your own algorithms and implement your own data integration applications
*Companion website with numerous project-based exercises and solutions and slides. Links to commercially available software allowing readers to build their own algorithms and implement their own data integration applications. Facebook page for reader input during and after publication.
Description
How do you approach answering queries when your data is stored in multiple databases that were designed independently by different people? This is first comprehensive book on data integration and is written by three of the most respected experts in the field.
This book provides an extensive introduction to the theory and concepts underlying today's data integration techniques, with detailed, instruction for their application using concrete examples throughout to explain the concepts. Data integration is the problem of answering queries that span multiple data sources (e.g., databases, web pages). Data integration problems surface in multiple contexts, including enterprise information integration, query processing on the Web, coordination between government agencies and collaboration between scientists. In some cases, data integration is the key bottleneck to making progress in a field.
The authors provide a working knowledge of data integration concepts and techniques, giving you the tools you need to develop a complete and concise package of algorithms and applications.
Readership
Database practitioners in industry, i.e., data warehouse engineers, database system designers, data architects/enterprise architects, database researchers, statisticians, data analysts, and other data professionals working at the R&D and implementation levels. Students in data analytics and knowledge discovery.
Principles of Data Integration, 1st Edition
CH 1: Introduction
Part I: Foundational Data Integration Techniques
CH 2: Manipulating Query Expressions
CH 3: Describing Data Sources
CH 4: String Matching
CH 5: Schema Matching and Mapping
CH 6: General Schema Manipulation Operators
CH 7: Data Matching
CH 8: Query Processing
CH 9: Wrappers
CH 10: Data Warehousing and Caching
Part II: Integration with Extended Data Representations
CH 11: XML
CH 12: Ontologies and Knowledge Representation
CH 13: Incorporating Uncertainty into Data Integration
CH 14: Data Provenance
Part III: Novel Integration Architectures
CH 15: Data Integration on the Web
CH 16: Keyword Search: Integration on Demand
CH 17: Peer-to-Peer Integration
CH 18: Integration in Support of Collaboration
CH 19: The Future of Data Integration
Quotes and reviews
"This is the definitive book on data integration technology, written by experts who invented much of the technology they write about. It’s comprehensive, with lots of technical detail very clearly explained. It’s a must-read for anyone involved in the development of data integration solutions."--Philip A. Bernstein, Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Corporation
"Despite having been with us for decades, data integration remains a challenging, multi-faceted problem. This book does an excellent job of bringing together and explaining its many facets along with the technical solutions that have been developed to date. The authors are three of the field's leading contributors, with a mix of both academic and industrial experience, and their presentation includes examples and manages to make even the more theoretical material accessible to readers. All aspects of modern data integration are covered, including different styles of integration, data and schema matching, query processing and wrappers, as well as challenges posed by the Web and the wide variety of data types and formats that must be integrated today. This book should be a great resource for graduate courses on data integration."--Michael Carey, Bren Professor of Information and Computer Sciences, UC Irvine
"The days of enterprises/organizations depending on a single, closed database have given way to a Web-dominated world in which multiple databases must interoperate and integrate. Doan (computer science, U. of Wisconsin, Madison) and colleagues at Google and the University of Pennsylvania address how database ideas have broadened to accommodate external sources of structured information, distributed aspects of the Web, and issues of data-sharing. Part I treats topics and techniques for data queries, integration, and warehousing covered in a database course. Part II discusses extended data representations that capture properties not present in the standard relational data model. Then they present novel architectures for, and trends in, addressing specific integration problems, e.g., of Web sources. Includes an extensive bibliography."--Reference and Research Book News, October 2012
