Data Integration Needs an Industrial Revolution
March 2001
Arnon Rosenthal, The MITRE Corporation
Scott Renner, The MITRE Corporation
Len Seligman, The MITRE Corporation
Frank Manola, The MITRE Corporation
ABSTRACT
The data resources in a large enterprise typically exist as many separate islands of data. Each is maintained by a distinct community for its purposes, and is largely unusable by others. It is common to see whole data archipelagos comprised of thousands of separate resources [Ston00]. We would, of course, prefer to see one single integrated data resource usable by all. This is the "grand vision" of data integration: discovery of and access to all data, with multiple sources properly combined, delivered in a form that each consumer can interpret. Decentralized organizations such as the US Air Force might accept for now a slightly less ambitious dream—the ability to establish a connection between islands, a way to obtain any desired information from any other source.
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