InstanceMatching.org is an attempt at realizing a collaborative approach to research on instance matching for scientists and industry people. Instance matching is seen as a specific subtask of the more general problem of ontology matching and, for this reason, IM.org has been created in collaboration with www.ontologymatching.org starting from the experience of the instance matching evaluation track of OAEI 2009.

If OntologyMatching.org is the main reference resource about matching in general, IM.org should be seen more as a focused group which has the goal of providing the ontology matching community with a site for discussing and notifying problems and initiatives in the specific field of instance matching.

If you are interested in instance matching and you think that collaboration is needed, please contribute in one or more of the following ways:

• Subscribe (you can create an account using the menu on the left)
• Submit articles, short comments, news or links about:
  • Theoretical discussions and problems
  • Methods and techniques
  • Experiences and empirical work
  • Instance Matching evaluation
  • Links to tools, datasets, conferences, ...

Contributions may be submitted in one of the following ways:

• Log in and use the "contribute" links that appear in the menu
• Just type a short comment on one of the contributions already present
• Send an email to Alfio Ferrara

Contributions are published as soon as they are validate by the administrator.

The web site will be continuously updated. You will find a list of topics of interest looking at the menu on the left. If something is missing, please tell us.

The web site has been created and is maintained by the ISLab group from the University of Milan (Università degli Studi di Milano). Please send him an email for any request or comment about the web site.