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: hc62889a3e4fb8d86
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2009
Pagerank: 5.2116341e-05
Overall Rank: 9,179 | 38.31%
DOI: -
PDF: Download (CC BY 3.0)

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
4,239	OpenII: An Open Source Information Integration Toolkit	2010	SIGMOD	6.7065847e-05
5,502	HAMSTER: Using Search Clicklogs for Schema and Taxonomy Matching	2009	VLDB	6.1007121e-05
12,733	Exploring Schema Similarity At Multiple Resolutions	2010	SIGMOD	4.9769913e-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
191	Applying Model Management to Classical Meta Data Problems	2003	CIDR	0.00025757196
296	Generic Schema Matching with Cupid	2001	VLDB	0.00021857869
407	COMA - A system for flexible combination of schema matching approaches	2002	VLDB	0.00019017823
801	Statistical Schema Matching across Web Query Interfaces	2003	SIGMOD	0.00013866905
815	An Interactive Clustering-based Approach to Integrating Source Query Interfaces on the Deep Web	2004	SIGMOD	0.00013713173
992	Web-scale Data Integration: You can only afford to Pay As You Go	2007	CIDR	0.00012641942
1,736	Schema Summarization	2006	VLDB	9.7505629e-05
2,901	Incremental Schema Matching	2006	VLDB	7.8793389e-05

Semantically Similar Papers

#	Overall Rank	Paper	Year	Venue
1	1,050	Data-Driven Understanding and Refinement of Schema Mappings	2001	SIGMOD
2	182	Schema Mapping as Query Discovery	2000	VLDB
3	1,505	Generic Schema Matching, Ten Years Later	2011	VLDB
4	2,901	Incremental Schema Matching	2006	VLDB
5	6,238	MapMerge: Correlating Independent Schema Mappings	2010	VLDB
6	296	Generic Schema Matching with Cupid	2001	VLDB
7	517	Schema Mappings, Data Exchange, and Metadata Management	2005	PODS
8	9,180	Analyzing and Revising Data Integration Schemas to Improve Their Matchability	2008	VLDB
9	9,953	Meta-Mappings for Schema Mapping Reuse	2019	VLDB
10	6,315	Putting Context into Schema Matching	2006	VLDB