Re: c.d.theory glossary (repost)

mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org> writes:
> :-)
> To what end? What was the stated purpose?

to what end where they doing it .. or why did they stop.

i think they were doing it because somebody decided that the metadata should be in some sort of repository and somebody else decided that met an RDBMS. the problems were with a huge number of arbitrary many to many relationships.

this is somewhat similar to nlm using a RDBMS as repository for UMLS. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/

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