An Architecture for Retaining and Analyzing Visual Explorations of Databases

  • Authors:
  • J. P. Lee;Georges Grinstein

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for Visualization and Perception Research, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA;Institute for Visualization and Perception Research, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA and The MITRB Corporation, Bedford, MA

  • Venue:
  • VIS '95 Proceedings of the 6th conference on Visualization '95
  • Year:
  • 1995

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Abstract

A software architecture is presented to integrate a database management system with data visualization. One of it's primary objectives, the retention of user-data interactions, is detailed. By storing all queries over the data along with high-level descriptions of the query result and associated visualization, the process by wich a database is explored can be analyzed. This approach can lead to contributions in the development of user models as "data explorers", metadata models for scientific databases, intelligent assistants, and data exploration services. We describe the underlying elements of this approach, specifically the visual database exploration model and the metadata objects that support the model.