Re: cdt glossary 0.1.0

mAsterdam wrote:
> ---------------
> Glossary 0.1.0: "You keep using that word.
> I do not think it means what
> february 2006 you think it means"
> --------------- -- Inigo Montoya
<snip>
>
> [Data model]
> Data models are artificial constructs and may not
> completely represent the true nature of information
> and categorization. These categories already
> exist, to some degree, in the way information
> is handled outside the database.
> Databases don't exist in vacuo; they're fed
> (and consulted) by users who would have some system
> of mental categorization even if they were shuffling
> everything around with paper and pencil.
<snip>

I would like to see a revision on this one. I've gotta run, but as you might guess, I'd suggest some subset of words from http://www.tincat-group.com/mewsings/2006/01/naked-model.html

such as "using Date to rephrase Codd.

    'Codd defines a data model in a 1980 paper Data models in database management. By his definition a data model consists of a collection of data structure types, operators that can be applied to instances of these types and consistency rules that define valid states for the data.' "

And maybe something about a data model being an abstraction of a programming language or sublanguage.

Thanks for your efforts on this. --dawn Received on Sat Feb 25 2006 - 01:19:37 CET