Database Lexicography

✍ Scribed by Gary Coen

• Book ID: 104308829
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 260 KB
• Volume: 42
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0169-023X
• DOI: 10.1016/s0169-023x(02)00052-6

✦ Synopsis

This paper introduces database lexicography, a metadata analysis discipline that applies lexical graph theory to data design. 1 Database lexicography proposes a formal design criterion for data dependencies, and it provides metrics to evaluate the conformance of designs to this criterion. It treats the data dictionary as a first class object encoding design concepts, and its benefits include identification of database dependency architecture; quantification of interdependent data elements' sensitivity to change; categorization of core and peripheral data elements; model integration; and figures of merit by which to fortify data architectures to withstand design fossilization and guide their evolution amidst changing requirements. Ó 2002 Published by Elsevier Science B.V.