An Architecture and Query Language for a Federation of Heterogeneous Dictionary Databases.

An architecture for federating heterogeneous dictionary databases is described. It proposes a common description language and query language to provide for the exchange of information between databases with different organizations, on different platforms and in different DBMSs. The common query lang...

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Published in:Computers & the Humanities Vol. 34; no. 4; pp. 393 - 408
Main Authors: Patrick, Jon, Zhang, Jun, Artola-Zubillaga, Xabier
Format: Article
Published: Springer Nature Dec2000
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          Basser Department of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Sydney, 2006, Australia (author for correspondence, E-mail: )
          Information Systems Department, Massey University, New Zealand
          Lengoaia eta Sistema Informatikoak, Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU), Basque Country (E-mail: )
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        Computer architecture
        Programming languages
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