Data Integration and Exchange

Course descriptors: Level 10 Level 11

Professor: Leonid Libkin
Office hours: by appointment

Class meets Wednesdays 9:00-10:50 as follows:

14/01	G.14 Seminar room - Medical School
21/01	G.14 Seminar room - Medical School
28/01	G.14 Seminar room - Medical School
4/02	G.14 Seminar room - Medical School
11/02	Teaching Studio LG.07, DHT
18/02	Innovative learning week, no classes
25/02	Teaching Studio LG.07, DHT
04/03	Teaching Studio LG.07, DHT
11/03	G.14 Seminar room - Medical School
18/03	G.14 Seminar room - Medical School
25/03	G.14 Seminar room - Medical School

Announcements

Assignments

Assignment 1
Assignment 2

Course materials

Currently there is no single text covering thw topics of the course. We shall use:

Foundations of Data Exchange which covers data exchange topics. It can be ordered from the CUP, or from local Blackwell's, which promised a discount for UoE students.

Data integration chapter of Web Data Management by Abiteboul et al.

Course lecture notes posted below.

Course information

Relational databases: basic facts

Introduction, keys problems with exchanging and integrating information

Data integration basics

Integration and views

Incomplete information

Relational data exchange

Schema mappings

Overview of commercial tools

Inconsistent databases