A Call for a Web InformaticsĬonsiderable work has been done on data warehousing and ETL (extract, transform, load) relations in enterprise information integration ( EII) for structured data, as well as in the general area of personal information management (PIM). This material leads to a forthcoming Part II, wherein this information is then used to present an updated technical data vocabulary and partial ontology for the technical data model at the center of the UMBEL core. This Part I posting presents a survey of current practice and terminology, with a specific call to begin a practice of Web informatics.

Thus, formulating such a model or schema is a central task for completing the core UMBEL ontology. In the case of the UMBEL lightweight subject reference structure, such a model or organizational schema would also help guide the characterization of source datasets for meaningful processing and access. This latter purpose is essential to data federation or combining data from multiple sources - namely, broadening the current innovation of linked data for RDF to all Web data forms. Such a model would also be useful to help organize and streamline the pathways for processing or converting the data from one source form into another. There is today no accepted data model - nor accepted vocabulary - for Web data models.Ī model to classify data structure on the Web would be useful for helping to find meaningful generalities for accessing and using that data.

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