Poster: Visualizing Schema Clusters for Agile Information Sharing

Very large enterprises present distinct information management challenges: it is difficult for their Chief Information Officers (CIOs) and information architects to obtain a clear overview of enterprise information assets and it is hard to quickly recognize opportunities for productive data sharing. To support users in these endeavors, we have created Affinity, a tool for visualizing clusters of related schemas. The contributions of this work are: 1) a new application of clustering, schema clustering, to enable rapid and agile information sharing, 2) a visualization technique combining hierarchical clustering and 2D point placement and 3) an open source tool for visualizing schema clusters.