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On Integrating Existing Bibliographic Databases And Structured Databases, Ying Lu, Ee Peng Lim
On Integrating Existing Bibliographic Databases And Structured Databases, Ying Lu, Ee Peng Lim
Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems
It is widely accepted that future digital library applications have to be built upon different kinds of database servers to draw different forms of data from them. These data include bibliographic data, text data, multimedia data, and structured data. We address the problem of integrating existing bibliographic and structured databases which reside at different locations in the network. To integrate bibliographic data and structured data, we extended the well-known SQL model to represent bibliographic related attributes and queries. In particular, we have added a new data type to model attributes in the bibliographic database. We have also designed specialized predicates …