Limitations of record-based information models

  • Authors:
  • William Kent

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Corp., San Jose, CA

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
  • Year:
  • 1979

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Abstract

Record structures are generally efficient, familiar, and easy to use for most current data processing applications. But they are not complete in their ability to represent information, nor are they fully self-describing.