SEIII: Workshop on Information Integration

研讨会的目的是使全国关注识别和全面审查信息集成（II）领域的主要挑战的必要性，以及所需的长期研究、工程和开发，这些研究、工程和开发将需要提高先进信息技术应用的技术水平和实践水平，以解决近期和长期的这些挑战。以数字形式提供的信息的类型和形式是巨大的——图像、视频、文本、音频、传感器和其他形式的流数据，以及结构化数据，如数据库和XML/ HTML文档。尽管数据可能在地理上分布、收集和设计用于特定用途和应用程序（信息的“筒仓”），但它们通常在逻辑上是相互关联的，许多重要问题只能通过集体访问来回答。然而，尽管在过去的20年里进行了大量的研究和发展，真正的ad hoc II仍然是一个难以实现的目标，在这种情况下，不同的信息系统可以有效地实时访问，以响应意外的信息需求，并将数据组合起来形成对查询的可靠答案。需要系统地发展信息技术，以提供必要的基础设施，从而在获取和分析广泛分布的、异构的、不同的信息资源方面取得重大进展。本次讲习班特别重要的是与科学和工程数据与联邦、医疗和其他记录的整合有关的问题。

The purpose of the workshop is to devote national attention to the need for identifying and comprehensively examining the major challenges in the area of information integration (II) and the required long-term research, engineering and development that will be needed to advance the state of the art and state of the practice in the application of advanced IT to resolve these challenges in the near- and long-term. The type and modality of information available in digital form is vast - image, video, text, audio, sensor and other forms of streaming data, as well as structured data such as databases and XML/ HTML documents. Although the data may be geographically distributed, collected and designed for specific uses and applications ("silos" of information), it is often logically inter-related, and many important questions can only be answered by accessing it collectively. However, despite considerable research and development over the last 20 years, truly ad hoc II, where disparate information systems are accessed efficiently in real time in response to unanticipated information needs and data is combined to form reliable answers to queries, remains an elusive goal. A systematic development of II technologies is needed to provide the necessary infrastructure leading to significant advances in the access to and analysis of widely distributed, heterogeneous, disparate information resources. Of particular importance to this workshop will be issues associated with the integration of science and engineering data and Federal, medical, and other records.