OPOSSUM: Desk-Top Schema Management through Customizable Visualization
VLDB '95 Proceedings of the 21th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Computational Proxies: Modeling Scientific Applications in Object Databases
Proceedings of the Seventh International Working Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management
A Moose and a Fox Can Aid Scientists with Data Management Problems
DBLP-4 Proceedings of the Fourth International Workshop on Database Programming Languages - Object Models and Languages
Object-oriented database support for computational chemistry
SSDBM'1992 Proceedings of the 6th international working conference on Scientific and statistical database management
Zoo: a desktop experiment management environment
SIGMOD '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
ZOO: A Desktop Experiment Management Environment
VLDB '96 Proceedings of the 22th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Managing Soil Science Experiments Using ZOO
SSDBM '97 Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management
Data Mining and Modeling in Scientific Databases
SSDBM '97 Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management
GridDB: a data-centric overlay for scientific grids
VLDB '04 Proceedings of the Thirtieth international conference on Very large data bases - Volume 30
Bottom-up scientific databases based on sets and their top-down usage
IDEAS'97 Proceedings of the 1997 international conference on International database engineering and applications symposium
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The problem of translating database objects into a flat format to be written out in a flat Ascii file or, conversely, translating the contents of a file into a complex database object arises in several applications. It is especially important in scientific database applications, where file-based communication with external programs (e.g., visualization packages or model simulations) is very common. We introduce Frog, a visual tool that can be used to specify translations between database objects and flat files, requiring no programming by the user. The tool can deal with objects of arbitrary complexity, without the object complexity being directly reflected in the complexity of the corresponding visual interaction. Based on the visual actions of the user, the tool stores enough information in a map-file, whose contents are used at run-time by another tool, Turtle, to translate any chosen database object into the appropriate file layout. The tool has been developed as part of the ZOO desktop Experiment Management Environment and has been used by a few experimental scientists with success.