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In the early stages of data warehouse design, the integration of several source databases must be addressed. Data-oriented and hybrid methodologies need to consider a global schema coming from the integration of source databases, in order to start the conceptual design. Since each database relies on its own conceptual schema, in the integration process a reconciliation phase is necessary, in order to solve syntactical and/or semantic inconsistencies among concepts. In this paper, we present an ontology-based approach to perform the integration of different conceptual schemas automatically.
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Tria, F.D., Lefons, E., Tangorra, F. (2013). Ontological Approach to Data Warehouse Source Integration. In: Gelenbe, E., Lent, R. (eds) Information Sciences and Systems 2013. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 264. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01604-7_25
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