Interpretation of Construction Patterns for Biodiversity Spreadsheets
| Autor: | Michela Borges, André Santanchè, Maria Cecília Calani Baranauskas, Ivelize Rocha Bernardo |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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| Zdroj: | Enterprise Information Systems ISBN: 9783319223476 ICEIS (Revised Selected Papers) |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-22348-3_22 |
| Popis: | Spreadsheets are widely adopted as “popular databases”, where authors shape their solutions interactively. Although spreadsheets are easily adaptable by the author, their informal schemas cannot be automatically interpreted by machines to integrate data across independent spreadsheets. In biology, we observed a significant amount of biodiversity data in spreadsheets treated as isolated entities with different tabular organizations, but with high potential for data articulation. In order to automatically interpret these spreadsheets we exploit construction patterns followed by users in the biodiversity domain. This paper details evidences of such patterns and how they can lead to characterize the nature of a spreadsheet, as well as, its fields in a domain. It combines an automatic analysis of thousands of spreadsheets, collected on the Web, with results from a survey conducted with biologists. We propose a representation model to be used in automatic interpretation systems that captures these patterns. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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