Re: Semistructured data models

From: Ming Wu <wu_at_in.tum.de>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 10:07:51 +0200
Message-ID: <ahln87$o4r$1_at_wsc10.lrz-muenchen.de>


U can read the book "Data on the Web" written by Sergi Abiteboul, all the theory stuffs are there. As to the tree and graph, it's all up to the definitions of your representation.

Regards

Ming

"Chaitanya Mishra" <cmishra_at_cse.iitk.ac.in> wrote in message news:4a11bbd0.0207232246.74bd1fc4_at_posting.google.com...
> Hi,
> i am doing a project on semistructured databases right now. One
> thing that doesn't seem to be defined precisely is whether
> semistructured data is a graph or a tree. All the earlier papers (the
> lore project ones etc) state that it should be represented as a graph.
> But quite a lot of papers assume that the data model is a tree. Could
> anyone help me out.
> Also is XML currently the most popular semistructured data format?
> I've also heard of something called the RDF (Resource Description
> Framework). does it have anything to do with semistructured data as
> well?
> Finally, has any work on parallel semistructured database systems been
> done?
> Thanks
> Chaitanya
Received on Wed Jul 24 2002 - 10:07:51 CEST

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