Information integration

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Information Integration is a field of study known by various terms: Information Fusion, Deduplication, Referential Integrity and so on. It refers to the field of study of techniques attempting to merge information from disparate sources despite differing conceptual, contextual and typographical representations. This is used in Data Mining and consolidation of data from semi- or unstructured resources.

A number of technologies are available to integrate information for example