P . A . Bernstein , Industrial Strength Schema Matching 1 Industrial Strength Schema Matching

The problem of creating mappings between schemas is an unavoidable and time-consuming step in the design of many types of large-scale commercial applications: in transaction processing and enterprise application integration, to help map messages between different XML formats; in data warehouses, to map data sources into warehouse schemas; and in web portals, to identify points of integration between heterogeneous databases. This position paper gives a brief summary of the state-of-the-art of schema matching and recommends platform development, rather than algorithm development, as the direction most likely to yield a significant improvement.