Stanford Digital Library Project

SIDL-WP-1995-0021

Attribute Set Homogenization: Early vs. Late

Andreas Paepcke

paepcke@cs.stanford.edu

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This paper was created on: 10/13/95 and last revised on:10/19/1995

Author's Comments: I put up the strawman that when we import data, we should import the corresponding attribute sets in all their diversity, rather than homogenizing attribute sets during import. Our internal dbs would be mixtures of many attribute sets. Then, each application using the internal dbs would include declarations of how attribute set differences should be resolved for *them*. An underlying engine would accomplish the processing of these declarations. I sketch the proposition that InterBib is one full example of this approach. An appendix shows examples of my simple-probably-not-quite-complete notation.

Status: PRIVATE

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