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Heterogeneous
database problem
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Different
organizational units, Service Needers/Providers have
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radically
different databases
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Different syntactically: whats the format?
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Different structurally: how
are they structured?
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Different semantically: what do they mean?
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They all
speak different languages (access, description, schemas,
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meaning)
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Integration:
rather than N2 problem, with single, adequate
Ontology
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reduces to N
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Enterprise-wide
system interoperability problem
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Currently:
system-of-systems, vertical stovepipes
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Ontologies
act as conceptual model representing enterprise
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consensus
semantics
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Relevant
document retrieval/question-answering problem
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What is the
meaning of your query?
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What is the
meaning of documents that would satisfy your query?
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Can you
obtain only meaningful, relevant documents?
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