Representing Conceptual Multidimensional Properties Using the Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM)
Enrique Medina6
and Juan Trujillo6 
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Departamento de Lenguajes y Sistemas Informáticos, Universidad de Alicante, Spain |
Abstract
Data warehouses, multidimensional databases and OLAP tools are based on the multidimensional (MD) modeling. Lately, several
approaches have been proposed to easily represent main MD properties at the conceptual level. As the core of any tool implementation,
these MD models should be managed using a metadata facility. Due to this broad diversity of MD models, in the practice tools
with dissimilar metadata are integrated through the building of complex metadata bridges. Therefore, the necessity of a globally
understood standard definition for metadata should be addressed in order to ensure interoperability, integration and spreading
of metadata use in DW projects. In this paper, we make use of the Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM) to represent main MD properties
at the conceptual level, so any CWM-based tool could interoperate by exchanging their CWM-based metadata. Furthermore, we
introduce the implementation of CWM-enabled metadata resources viaCWM specific interfaces like CORBA IDL.
Keywords Conceptual MD modeling - CWM - DW - metadata integration - OLAP
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