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GEM: A generic visualization and editing facility for heterogeneous metadata

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Many model management tasks, e.g., schema matching or merging, require the manual handling of metadata. Given the diversity of metadata, its many different representations and modes of manipulation, meta-model- and task-specific editors usually have to be created from scratch with a considerable investment in time and effort. To ease the creation of custom-tailored editing facilities, we present GEM, a generic editor capable of visualizing and editing arbitrary metadata in an integrated manner. GEM provides a stylesheet language based on graph transformations to customize both, the mode of visualization and the available manipulation operations.

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  1. Heterogeneous Information Systems Group, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Kaiserslautern, 67653, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Jürgen Göres, Thomas Jörg, Boris Stumm & Stefan Dessloch

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This paper is an extended and revised version of an earlier work presented at the BTW 2009 [7].

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Göres, J., Jörg, T., Stumm, B. et al. GEM: A generic visualization and editing facility for heterogeneous metadata . Comp. Sci. Res. Dev. 24, 119–135 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00450-009-0065-9

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