Re: c.d.theory glossary (repost)
From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn_at_garlic.com>
Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 16:47:25 -0600
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Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 16:47:25 -0600
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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/
-- Anne & Lynn Wheeler | http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/Received on Sat May 15 2004 - 00:47:25 CEST