Eirene: Interactive design and refinement of schema mappings via data examples

Abstract

One of the first steps in the process of integrating information from multiple sources into a desired target format is to specify the relationships, called schema mappings, between the source schemas and the target schema. In this demonstration, we showcase a new methodology for designing schema mappings. Our system Eirene interactively solicits data examples from the mapping designer in order to design a schema mapping between a source schema and a target schema. A data example, in this context, is a pair consisting of a source instance and a target instance showing the desired outcome of performing data exchange using the schema mapping being designed. One of the central parts of the system is a module that, given a set of data examples, either returns a "best" fitting schema mapping, or reports that no fitting schema mapping exists. © 2011 VLDB Endowment.