Information intermediation is the foundation stone of some of the most
successful Internet companies, and is perhaps second only to the
Internet Infrastructure companies. On the heels of information
integration and interoperability, this book on information brokering
discusses the next step in information interoperability and
integration.
The emerging Internet economy based on burgeoning B2B and B2C trading
will soon demand semantics-based information intermediation for its
feasibility and success. B2B ventures are involved in the
`rationalization' of new vertical markets and construction of domain
specific product catalogs. This book provides approaches for re-use of
existing vocabularies and domain ontologies as a basis for this
rationalization and provides a framework based on inter-ontology
interoperation. Infrastructural trade-offs that identify optimizations
in performance and scalability of web sites will soon give way to
information based trade-offs as alternate rationalization schemes come
into play and the necessity of interoperating across these schemes is
realized.
Information Brokering Across Heterogeneous Digital Data's intended
readers are researchers, software architects and CTOs, advanced product
developers dealing with information intermediation issues in the context
of e-commerce (B2B and B2C), information technology professionals in
various vertical markets (e.g., geo-spatial information, medicine,
auto), and all librarians interested in information brokering.