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Information integration constitutes an important part of most knowledge management applications. We have set out information integration requirements in the initial project report the ICONS Project Description [ICONS D01] and this reports presents our research and development results matching those requirements.
The information integration features constitute an integral part of the ICONS platform architecture [ICONS D16] and their functionality is verified by the prototype knowledge management application, i.e. the Structural Fund Projects Knowledge Portal [ICONS D35].
The external information artefacts to be integrated in the ICONS repository include binary files of assorted formats, report files, XML annotated text files, extracted relational tables, and information directly derived from external information systems. The extracted relational tables, called materialised tables, are integrated form preexisting relational databases or from Web pages. In the latter case, we use Lixto developed at the Technical University of Vienna [Baumgartner2001]. All information integration modules are tightly integrated within the ICONS platform.
Workflow platforms are universally considered as an important technology enabling integration of pre-existing, heterogeneous information systems. We have presented the integration features of the ICONS Intelligent Workflow module from two perspectives; (a) the information system integration, and (b) the distributed workflow process integration. Both capabilities are supported in the ICONS platform. Back to top