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A Query Language for Consistent Access of Metadata Registries  

Shin Dongkil (고려대학교 컴퓨터학과)
Kim Young-Gab (고려대학교 컴퓨터학과)
Jeong Dongwon (고려대학교 컴퓨터학과)
Park Soo-Hyun (국민대학교 비즈니스IT학부)
Baik Doo-Kwon (고려대학교 컴퓨터학과)
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Journal of KIISE:Databases / v.31, no.6, 2004 , pp. 609-623 More about this Journal
Abstract
Various metadata registries have been built in many countries of the world. Although the metadata registry is an international standard, it does not provide a consistent access interface for handling the metadata registries. Therefore, all systems for managing them were developed by using different operations and access interfaces. It requires duplicate efforts on the same operations whenever metadata registry systems are developed. As a result, it causes unnecessary costs and efforts for building metadata registries, and also incurs inconsistency between the metadata registries because the previous developed systems use the different interfaces for the metadata registry elements This paper analyzes and defines operation patterns that are commonly used for the metadata registries. We defined and designed SQL/MDR extended from SQL using the analyzed operation patterns. SQL/MDR provides a standardized access interface for developing metadata registry systems. This paper shows the implementation of SQL/MDR and the result that we actually applied it to the bibliographical databases. By developing the metadata registry systems using SQL/MDR, we can reduce much time and efforts owing to its standard interface. It allows metadata registries to be accessed consistently. Additionally, it makes all metadata registries follow the international standard, ISO/IEC ll179.
Keywords
MDR; Metadata Registry; SQL; ISO/IEC ll179; Data Element; Metadata Registry Query Language;
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