Alamo: An Architecture for Integrating Heterogeneous Data Sources

We are developing an architecture, Alamo,that addresses both the semantic and physicalaspects of data integration. The Alamo architecturepermits the interoperability of bothdata sources and semantic components. Asa collection, the supported semantic componentscapture most basic forms of knowledgerepresentation. Since the semantic integrationof heterogeneous data sources requires somerepresentation of the semantic content of thedata source, the Alamo architecture forms an...