The Prometheus database for taxonomy

Raguenaud, C.; Kennedy, J.; Barclay, P.J.

Abstract

This paper presents the work carried out in the Prometheus project and its motivation, taxonomy. Taxonomy presents challenges to common database systems. Because of its complexity and the necessary treatments applied to its data, common database models such as the relational, the object-oriented, of even graph models are not able to support taxonomic applications fully. Our approach is the extension of an object-oriented database model with explicit relationships in order to support new features and thereby offer the necessary level of service for developing taxonomic applications.

Citation

Raguenaud, C., Kennedy, J., & Barclay, P. (2000, July). The Prometheus database for taxonomy. Presented at Proceedings. 12th International Conference on Scientific and Statistica Database Management

• Conference Name: Proceedings. 12th International Conference on Scientific and Statistica Database Management
• Start Date: Jul 28, 2000
• End Date: Jul 28, 2000
• Publication Date: 2000
• Deposit Date: Nov 4, 2009
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 4, 2009
• Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Pages: 250-252
• Book Title: Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, SSDBM 2000
• ISBN: 0769506860
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ssdm.2000.869793
• Keywords: Database design; Prometheus; Object-oriented database; Explict defined relationships; Application; Taxonomy
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/2995
• Contract Date: Nov 4, 2009