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FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

1998

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A Sem-Odb Application For The Western Cultures Database, Raquel Ghersgorin Jul 1998

A Sem-Odb Application For The Western Cultures Database, Raquel Ghersgorin

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

This thesis presents the evolution of the Western Cultures Database. The project starts with a database design using a Semantic modeling, and continues with the implementation following two techniques: a Relational and a Semantic approach. The project continues with them in parallel, reaching a point where the Relational is left aside because of the advantages of the Semantic (Sem-ODB) approach.

The Semantic implementation produces as a result the Western Culture Semantic Database Application - web interface (the main contribution of this thesis). The database is created and populated using Sem ODB and the web interface is built using WebRG (report …