Managing Semi-Structured Data

  • Authors:
  • Daniela Florescu

  • Affiliations:
  • Oracle

  • Venue:
  • Queue - Semi-structured Data
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

I vividly remember during my first college class my fascination with the relational database—an information oasis that guaranteed a constant flow of correct, complete, and consistent information at our disposal. In that class I learned how to build a schema for my information, and I learned that to obtain an accurate schema there must be a priori knowledge of the structure and properties of the information to be modeled. I also learned the ER (entity-relationship) model as a basic tool for all further data modeling, as well as the need for an a priori agreement on both the general structure of the information and the vocabularies used by all communities producing, processing, or consuming this information.