Incremental, Semi-automatic, Mapping-Based Integration of Heterogeneous Collections into Archaeological Digital Libraries: Megiddo Case Study

Raghavan, Ananth and Vemuri, Naga Srinivas and Shen, Rao and Goncalves, Marcos A. and Fan, Weiguo and Fox, Edward A. (2005) Incremental, Semi-automatic, Mapping-Based Integration of Heterogeneous Collections into Archaeological Digital Libraries: Megiddo Case Study. Technical Report TR-05-06, Computer Science, Virginia Tech.

Abstract

Automation is an important issue when integrating heterogeneous collections into archaeological digital libraries. We propose an incremental approach through intermediary- and mapping-based techniques. A visual schema mapping tool within the 5S framework allows semi-automatic mapping and in-cremental global schema enrichment. 5S also helped speed up development of a new multi-dimensional browsing service. Our approach helps integrate the Me-giddo excavation data into a growing union archaeological DL, ETANA-DL.