Semantic Data Integration and Relationship Identification Using the Hierarchical Structure of a Domain-Specific Taxonomy

In this paper we present an architecture for integrating IT-Service-Management-data and a method for relationship identification using a domain-specific taxonomy. This knowledge can be used for semantic data integration by automatically accessing different data sources and identifying dependencies between various IT-Service-items. This can be done by using existing categories and documents to build up a taxonomy, extracting keywords and mapping these keywords to existing data assets. To show the functionality, we created a simple taxonomy and tried to identify the relationships between various assets.