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Topic Maps hold out great promise as a way to simplify data integration and presenting an easy-to-use interface to integrated data sets. Through merging, it is easy to build an integrated data set; the challenge is keeping the merged data set up to date.
This paper provides a procedure by which a subset of one topic map can be automatically synchronized by a subset of another topic map, in such a way that all updates to the source topic map will make their way into the target topic map. The procedure is flexible, and can meet a large variety of use cases. This effectively solves the update problem in a generalized way.
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Garshol, L.M. (2007). Synchronizing Topic Maps with External Sources. In: Maicher, L., Sigel, A., Garshol, L.M. (eds) Leveraging the Semantics of Topic Maps. TMRA 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4438. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71945-8_19
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