Harmony schema matcher

The Harmony Schema Matcher and Data Integration Workbench, developed by The MITRE Corporation, is now available royalty free for academic use only. Harmony identifies candidate semantic correspondences among XML schemata or RDF/OWL ontologies and includes three key components:

Harmony can be extended to incorporate new match algorithms or new schema types and can be used to provide a flexible GUI for interacting with existing match algorithms. Matches that are confirmed by a human in the loop can be passed to other integration tools via the integration workbench. Harmony is available as a single Java archive (jar) file.

For more information on Harmony, please read:

P. Mork, A. Rosenthal, L. Seligman, J. Korb, K. Samuel, Integration Workbench: Integrating Schema Integration Tools, Selected as Best Paper, International Workshop on Database Interoperability (InterDB) at IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Atlanta, GA, April 2006.

To acquire the software, please print and sign the license agreement below and fax it to Julia Bowen with a subject of "Harmony Academic License" at 703-983-1223 or scan the signed copy and email it to jbowen in the domain of mitre.org with the same subject line. (This license is for academic use only, and the software is not supported.)

Profit making companies wishing to use Harmony should email Ms. Bowen with a subject of "Harmony Non-academic License" jbowen in the domain of mitre.org.

Len Seligman and Peter Mork
Technology and Innovation Directorate, Information and Computing Technologies
The MITRE Corporation, McLean, Virginia, USA

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