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Ontology Alignment Patterns for Manufacturing ERP Integration

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Pedro Miguel Lourenço
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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.

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OntologyERPSemantic IntegrationManufacturing

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