Information integration

Data Engineering; Data Governance and Data Quality

noun phrase

Definition: The process or framework of combining data or knowledge from multiple heterogeneous sources into a unified, interoperable representation suitable for querying, reasoning, or decision support [Bednarczyk and Rudolph 2023].

Example in context: “Formal ontologies are of significant importance in artificial intelligence, playing a central role in the Semantic Web, ontology-based information integration, or peer-to-peer data management.” [Bednarczyk and Rudolph 2023]

Synonyms: data integration; ontology-based information integration (narrower)

Related terms: data fusion; peer-to-peer data management; ontology matching; semantic interoperability