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21st International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'05)
Representing and Querying Data Transformations
Tokyo, Japan
April 05-April 08
ISBN: 0-7695-2285-8
Yannis Velegrakis, AT&T Labs - Research
Renée J. Miller, University of Toronto
John Mylopoulos, University of Toronto
Modern information systems often store data that has been transformed and integrated from a variety of sources. This integration may obscure the original source semantics of data items. For many tasks, it is important to be able to determine not only where data items originated, but also why they appear in the integration as they do and through what transformation they were derived. This problem is known as data provenance. In this work, we consider data provenance at the schema and mapping level. In particular, we consider how to answer questions such as "what schema elements in the source(s) contributed to this value", or "through what transformations or mappings was this value derived?" Towards this end, we elevate schemas and mappings to first-class citizens that are stored in a repository and are associated with the actual data values. An extended query language, called MXQL, is also developed that allows meta-data to be queried as regular data and we describe its implementation. scenario.
Citation:
Yannis Velegrakis, Renée J. Miller, John Mylopoulos, "Representing and Querying Data Transformations," icde, pp.81-92, 21st International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'05), 2005
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