Sean Falconer, Natalya F. Noy, Margaret-Anne Storey, "Ontology Mapping - A User Survey", Ontology Matching Workshop, 2007

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Ontology mapping is the key to data interoperability in the semantic
web vision. Computing mappings is the ?rst step to applications such as query
rewriting, instance sharing, web-service integration, and ontology merging. This
problem has received a lot of attention in recent years, but little is known about
how users actually construct mappings. Several ontology-mapping tools have
been developed, but which tools do users actually use? What processes are users
following to discover, track, and compute mappings? How do teams coordinate
when performing mappings? In this paper, we discuss the results from an on-
line user survey where we gathered feedback from the community to help answer
these important questions. We discuss the results from the survey and the impli-
cations they may have on the mapping research community.