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- From: jfmburg@cs.vu.nl (JFM Burg)
- Subject: data dictionaries
- Message-ID: <BuM69C.ny@cs.vu.nl>
- Sender: news@cs.vu.nl
- Organization: Fac. Wiskunde & Informatica, VU, Amsterdam
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 09:55:59 GMT
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- A few weeks ago their was a discussion going on about a data-dictionary
- standard. Somebody replied the question "What should a DD contain anyway".
- I'm very interested in this topic, because I'm analyzing what a DD should
- contain according to the conventional view of point. The conventional view
- of point is, for me, the way how DD's were/are involved in DBMS's.
-
- The way I see data-dictionaries, not necessarily in a traditional
- DBMS-environment, is as a, linguistical, lexicon. It should contain the
- traditional information on data (size, character/number/string etc.). It
- should, however, contain a lot of additional information also. Here, I'm
- thinking of information on the category, irregular forms, semantic
- properties, etc. of the word, homonyms and synonyms, etc.
-
- What I want to collect is, as much as possible different views on
- data-dictionaries. I like to know what all you pro's think of a traditional
- DD, and what you like the DD to be.
-
- I hope I get some reactions. You can e-mail your opinion to me directly, or
- post it on the news. If you like, I'll post my analysis and conclusions to
- this newsgroup.
-
-
- Hans Burg
- Vrije Universiteit
- Amsterdam
- Holland
-
- e-mail : jfmburg@cs.vu.nl
-