Motivation(s)
•Enterprise data integration; web-site construction.
•WWW:
–Comparison shopping
–Portals integrating data from multiple sources
–B2B, electronic marketplaces
•Science and culture:
–Medical genetics: integrating genomic data
–Astrophysics: monitoring events in the sky.
–Environment: Puget Sound Regional Synthesis Model
–Culture: uniform access to all cultural databases produced by countries in Europe.