Command and Control (C2) Database Translation Application

Situation awareness in network-centric warfare requires the ability to access information stored in a variety of different formats. Hence, the Army requires tools to facilitate the translation and alignment of information so that it can be transmitted between locations and understood, and so that it can be queried, displayed, and transmitted quickly and accurately to users at a variety of levels in the form that is of most use to To address this challenge, IET propose the Quik-Speak system, an online data translation utility. This portable, self-contained tool will provide a unified environment for performing translations of data between databases by supplying:  An ontology discovery tool to auto-sense disparate database structures from database schemas.  An ontology mapping learner to automatically construct candidate ontology mappings between these discovered ontologies.  A data translation generator that uses a glossary-rich foundational data schema to construct translation between different formats, measurement standards, and representational granularity levels.  A graphical tool utilizing advanced concepts in graphical representation of ontology mappings specifying, selecting, and refining ontology alignment and data translations.