Empowering Provenance in Data Integration
Haridimos Kondylakis19
, Martin Doerr19
and Dimitris Plexousakis19 
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Information Systems Laboratory FORTH-ICS Computer Science Department, University of Crete, |
Abstract
The provenance of data has recently been recognized as central to the trust one places in data. This paper presents a novel
framework in order to empower provenance in a mediator based data integration system. We use a simple mapping language for
mapping schema constructs, between an ontology and relational sources, capable to carry provenance information. This language
extends the traditional data exchange setting by translating our mapping specifications into source-to-target tuple generating
dependencies (s-t tgds). Then we define formally the provenance information we want to retrieve i.e. annotation, source and tuple provenance. We provide three algorithms to retrieve provenance information using information stored on the mappings and the
sources. We show the feasibility of our solution and the advantages of our framework.
Keywords Data Integration - Provenance - Mappings
This work was partially supported by the EU project plutIt (ICT-231430).
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