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Ontology Alignment Patterns for Manufacturing ERP Integration
authors
Pedro Miguel Lourenço
research area
abstract
Every enterprise ontology project eventually collides with the ERP. The data is there, the semantics are not, and a full schema migration is never on the table. This essay works through the practical design patterns for mapping ERP data structures onto a domain ontology without rewriting either — where to put the mapping layer, how to version it as the ERP configuration drifts, and which classes of semantic mismatch are worth modelling versus worth ignoring.
keywords
OntologyERPSemantic IntegrationManufacturing
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