Paper Info
Title
SPICE: A Flexible Architecture for Integrating Autonomous Databases to Comprise a Distributed Catalogue of Life
Abstract
In the SPICE project we are building a distributed catalogue of life, which will eventually be formed from up to 200 autonomous taxonomic databases. We are faced with a number of challenges, which include the scalability of the system; the accommodation of partial or missing data; queries which are potentially very expensive computationally, where it is difficult to determine which databases will contain data matching the queries, and the effective integration of heterogeneous databases at the knowledge level. In this paper we present the architecture on which SPICE is being built, and we explain how, within our SPICE architecture, we will be able to explore and develop new techniques to enhance access to the SPICE distributed database.
Year
DOI
Venue
2000
10.1007/3-540-44469-6_92
DEXA
Keywords
Field
DocType
spice architecture,flexible architecture,effective integration,heterogeneous databases,knowledge level,autonomous taxonomic databases,spice project,autonomous databases,expensive computationally,missing data,new technique,distributed database
Information system,Data mining,Architecture,Spice,Computer science,Information extraction,Distributed database,Data model,Database,Catalogue of Life,Scalability
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
3-540-67978-2
14
1.10
References 
Authors
12
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andrew C. Jones115730.78
Xue-Biao Xu216815.06
Nick Pittas3252.94
W. A. Gray4192.51
N. J. Fiddian519677.76
Richard J. White6637.21
John S. Robinson7141.10
Frank A. Bisby8575.34
Sue M. Brandt9504.36