"SOA Challenges: Entity Aggregation" from .Net Architecture Center and ... Topic Maps


In my journey to understand Topic Maps strength for enterprise knowledge integration I came across this article at Microsoft .Net Architecture Center: "SOA Challenges: Entity Aggregation" .

I love this article! It explains well challenge of information integration about the same subject (it is called an "entity aggregation" in the article). It also introduces concept of "Entity Aggregation Service" which is responsible for presenting unified view on entities across multiple enterprise applications.

It also demonstrates that SOA in fact does not provide solution for entity aggregation by itself. (That's already my interpretation :-) This is exactly place where database replication, cross SQL servers queries, XQuery-based integration, XML schemas etc. should be lifted to "knowledge level" using concept of ontology-based knowledge integration. And ... Topic Maps technology is a technology which can help enterprise system/software architects to implement this concept of "entity aggregation".

Posted: Sun - August 15, 2004 at 08:03 PM      

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