Date Posted: September 19, 2002
Overview
What is XML Data Mediator?
This technology has graduated.
XML Data Mediator became part of two products:- XML Data Mediator was used in IBM® Life Science's Clinical Genomics, Version 2.
- XML Data Mediator's algorithm was re-implemented in DB2® Version 9.
About the technology author(s)
Nianjun (Joe) Zhou has been with the IBM Internet Technology team since 1997. He has worked on several projects related to XML-based content management, relational database and XML object transformation, news applications, Web crawling and taxonomy, employee directory service, and personalization. Mr. Zhou""s interests include using computer technologies to develop new applications that can enhance the efficiency of knowledge sharing and information management in general.
George Mihaila joined the Research Staff of IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in December 2000. Dr. Mihaila""s research interests include Web query languages; Web-based information discovery; scalable architectures for locating and accessing distributed heterogeneous data sources; content summarization and quality of data assessment for data sources; semantics of data integration for incomplete and overlapping data sources; and XML storage and processing.
Arun Pradeep has been with IBM India since 1998. He has worked on several Web applications for the DEV/2000 team at IBM Rochester. Mr. Pradeep has been working in the area of XML-based mediator systems at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center since 2000.
Jessica Wu has been with IBM""s Internet Technology group for almost three years. She has worked on such projects as video networking through the Web, an interactive method of browsing products, and most recently, a prototype XML-based content management system.
Colleen Viehrig has been with IBM since 1983. She worked for IBM South Africa for three years and for IBM Germany for seven years, developing and maintaining various common (international) and local software applications. Ms. Viehrig joined the T. J. Watson Research Center in Hawthorne as a software engineer in 2000 and has been working on projects that enable data mapping and access between XML documents and different data sources (such as DB2, LDAP, and IMS). Her interests include Web-based technologies and the way that they are used in everyday life, such as in education, travel, etc.
Sriram Padmanabhan is a research staff member and manager of the Scalable Data Management group at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. He is interested in the general area of database processing, including query processing, optimization, XML and semistructured data, indexing and storage techniques, data warehousing, and distributed databases. Mr. Padmanabhan has published several papers in leading database conferences and journals.
Dikran Meliksetian is a software engineer in the IBM Internet Technology team. He is engaged primarily in the design and development of content management applications. Mr. Meliksetian is also interested in distributed video management systems, ATM network system development, image and video data compression, and a wide range of client/server distributed architectures.
