Re: Massively distributed data

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> "Dawn M. Wolthuis" <dwolt_at_tincat-group.com> wrote in message
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> > I think this is a fascinating question and maybe some of you will agree
> and
> > will have suggestions. I sat next to Jim Waldo from Sun at a lunch at a
> > Jini Community Conference in Boston earlier this year. He was talking
> about
> > medical information coming directly from people in some way. The idea
> would
> > be to have information about the health of an individual come from their
> > body. This was still in the stage of formulating the problem statement,
> so
> > the rest is just related to my own reflections on the problem.
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> > Possible simple scenario:
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> I hope this would not be possible :-)

OK, let's figure that somehow there is data from individuals with some ability to push itself and/or be accessed. Remove the need to consider the options for how this data flows from the person.

Yes, you are right that at any point of interest, you would want to take/have a snapshot of all of the data attributes.

Now, what about the fact that this could BE a database, but the natural database (and this is where my question is) seems to be one where you can navigate from node to node -- individual values, rather than one where you treat all values of a "relation" as a set, using set operators and all. If this data were available, what would our "live" database look like? --dawn Received on Wed May 12 2004 - 15:55:02 CEST