information_integration


 * Information integration**

Alexiev and his colleagues (2005) use the phrase information integration in connection with the use of ontologies within corporations. They argue that a lack of semantic consistency causes ineffenciences in corporate data discemination, and with information interoperability within organisations.

Following Noy and Musen (1999), Alexiev et al. (2005, p. 64) suggest there are "two major paradigms in information integration", namely ontology merging and ontology aligning.

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