(WM 2003: Professionelles Wissesmanagement – Erfahrungen und Visionen, Beiträge der 2. Konferenz Professionelles Wissensmanagement, 2003) Maier, Andreas; Aguado, J.; Bernaras, A.; Laresgoiti, I.; Pedinaci, C.; Peña, N.; Smithers, Tim
One of today's hottest IT topics is integration, as bringing together information from different sources and structures is not completely solved. The approach outlined here wants to illustrate how ontologies [Gr93] could help to support the integration process. The main benefits for an ontology-based approach are - the ability to cover all occurring data structures, for ontologies can be seen as nowadays most advanced knowledge representation model - the combination of deduction and relational database systems, which extends the mapping and business logic capabilities - a higher degree of abstraction, as the model is separated from the data storage - its extendibility and reusability