A proposal for syntactic data integration math protocols
Olaf Bachmann, Hans Schönemann, Simon Gray · 1997
The problem of providing connectivity for a collection of applications is largely one of data integration: the communicating parties must agree on the syntax and semantics of the data being exchanged.The Multi Protocol (MP) is an ongoing effort whose goaf is to solve this problem in the context of exchanging mathematical data.In earlier papers [5, 16], it was shown that dictionaries of definitions for operators, functions, and symbolic constants can effectively solve the problem of semantic data integration.In this paper we extend that earlier work and address the problem of syntactic data integration.A set of solutions is proposed that is both general, supporting a wide ramge of data objects with typing information, and efficient, supporting fast transmission and parsing.