CROSI--Capturing Representing and Operationalising Semantic Integration

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Hewlett Packard Laboratories @Bristol, UK

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Summary

The CROSI project completed in November of 2005. It was concerned with Semantic Interoperability and Integration. It was a joint research project between the University of Southampton, School of Electronics and Computer Science and Hewlett Packard Laboratories, with background support from the Advanced Knowledge Technologies IRC

Semantic integration has become a much-debated topic and it is viewed as a solution provider in both industrial and academic settings. As systems become more distributed and disparate within and across organisational boundaries and market segments, there is a need to preserve the meaning of concepts used in everyday transactions of information sharing. The emergence of the Semantic Web, and its anticipated industrial uptake in the years to come, has made these transactions, arguably, easier to implement and deploy on a large scale in a distributed environment like the Internet.

However, at the same time it poses some interesting challenges. For instance, we observe that the demand for knowledge sharing has outstripped the current supply. Moreover, even when knowledge sharing is feasible, this is only within the boundaries of a specific system, when certain assumptions hold, and within a specific domain. The reason for this shortcoming is, probably, the very environment and technologies that created a high demand for sharing: the more ontologies are being deployed on the Semantic Web, the higher the demand to share them for the benefits of knowledge sharing to achieve semantic integration.

In CROSI, we investigated these issues from the practical angle of ontology mapping. In this site we report on our findings including:

Survey: A comprehensive survey on the state-of-the-art of semantic integration systems
Framework: A framework for characterizing semantic integration systems
Architecture: A designated architecture for developing semantic integration systems, specifically tuned to ontology mapping systems
System: A dedicated ontology mapping system, CMS (CROSI Mapping System) (also see CMS at SourceForge and SemWebCentral)

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People

AKT, ECS, University of Southampton
- Yannis Kalfoglou, (y.kalfoglou (at) ecs.soton.ac.uk)
- Bo Hu, (bh (at) ecs.soton.ac.uk)
- Nigel Shadbolt, (nrs (at) ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Hewlett Packard Laboratories, Bristol
- Dave Reynolds, (Dave.Reynolds (at) hp.com)

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Updated: by Bo Hu <bh (at) ecs.soton.ac.uk>

Please report to Bo Hu if there are out of date links. Thanks!