Federating Heterogeneous Information Systems Using Web Services and Ontologies
Hemant K Jain, Huimin Zhao · Journal of the Association for Information Systems · 2004
The objective of this research is to develop an approach to federating heterogeneous information systems using emerging semantic web technologies.This research-in-progress paper describes a system architecture, in which web services are used to resolve system level heterogeneities while ontologies are used to resolve semantics level heterogeneities across local systems.The healthcare domain has been chosen to initially evaluate the utility of the proposed approach.