Dallimportare

Dallimportare is a term used in Italian-language information technology discussions to describe the process of importing data from external sources into a software system. It is a coined term rather than standard Italian usage and is encountered in technical writing to discuss data ingestion activities within pipelines and integration projects.

The word combines da (from) with l'importare (the act of importing). The form dall' arises from the contraction of da + l' before a vowel.

In this usage, dallimportare refers to the end-to-end practice of acquiring data from external sources, validating and cleansing it, transforming it to align with a target schema, and loading it into a data store or application.

Typical activities include identifying data sources, establishing connections, extracting or streaming data, mapping fields, enforcing quality checks, deduplicating records, loading data into the destination, and monitoring the ingestion pipeline. The term can be applied to both traditional ETL and modern ELT workflows, depending on where transformation occurs.

Some writers distinguish dallimportare as the broader concept of data ingestion, with ETL and ELT as specific implementation patterns. Others use dallimportare interchangeably with ETL to emphasize the ingestion phase.

In documents, dallimportare may appear as a nominal concept or as a function-like label. Example: "Questo modulo gestisce dallimportare dati da fonti eterogenee."

See also: Data ingestion, ETL, ELT, data integration.