The Role of Schema Matching in Large Enterprises

Summary: Advocates using schema matching in large enterprises as decision-support for human planners—beyond its traditional role as a precursor to mapping/code generation—and catalogs practical application areas. Presents a customer-case evaluation exposing strengths and failure modes at industrial scale and proposes a new research agenda. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 131
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 5.3321017e-05
Overall Rank: 9,014 | 38.16%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Ken Smith (The MITRE Corporation)
2. Peter Mork (The MITRE Corporation)
3. Len Seligman (The MITRE Corporation)
4. Arnon Rosenthal (The MITRE Corporation)
5. Michael Morse (The MITRE Corporation)
6. Christopher Wolf (The MITRE Corporation)
7. David Allen (The MITRE Corporation)
8. Maya Li (The MITRE Corporation)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{smith_cidr09,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '09},
        title = {{The Role of Schema Matching in Large Enterprises}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {Smith, Ken and Mork, Peter and Seligman, Len and Rosenthal, Arnon and Morse, Michael and Wolf, Christopher and Allen, David and Li, Maya},
        year = {2009}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,164	OpenII: An Open Source Information Integration Toolkit	2010	SIGMOD	6.8600415e-05
5,492	HAMSTER: Using Search Clicklogs for Schema and Taxonomy Matching	2009	VLDB	6.2001088e-05
12,436	Exploring Schema Similarity At Multiple Resolutions	2010	SIGMOD	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
183	Applying Model Management to Classical Meta Data Problems	2003	CIDR	0.00026283359
297	Generic Schema Matching with Cupid	2001	VLDB	0.00022157284
390	COMA - A system for flexible combination of schema matching approaches	2002	VLDB	0.00019382486
778	Statistical Schema Matching across Web Query Interfaces	2003	SIGMOD	0.00014102198
791	An Interactive Clustering-based Approach to Integrating Source Query Interfaces on the Deep Web	2004	SIGMOD	0.00013995705
969	Web-scale Data Integration: You can only afford to Pay As You Go	2007	CIDR	0.00012892148
1,702	Schema Summarization	2006	VLDB	9.9697258e-05
2,842	Incremental Schema Matching	2006	VLDB	8.0624613e-05

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