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Tracing Data Lineage Using Automed Schema Transformation Pathways

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Data warehousing is being increasingly used for integrating distributed, heterogeneous data in order to enable sophisticated analysis of this data. Automed is a database transformation and integration system supporting both virtual and materialized integration of schemas expressed in a variety of modelling languages [9,5,6]. Automed has as its a common data model a low-level hypergraph data model (HDM), and a set of primitive schema transformations operate on HDM schemas. An HDM schema consists of a set of nodes, edges and constraints. The primitive transformations add, delete, and rename a node, edge or constraint. The addNode and addEdge transformations include a query which defines the extent of the new schema construct in terms of the extents of the existing schema constructs (so adding the construct does not change the information content of the schema). Similarly, the delNode and delEdge transformations include a query which shows how the extent of the deleted construct can be reconstructed from the remaining schema constructs.

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Fan, H. (2002). Tracing Data Lineage Using Automed Schema Transformation Pathways. In: Eaglestone, B., North, S., Poulovassilis, A. (eds) Advances in Databases. BNCOD 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2405. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45495-0_6

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