On Jan 25, 2005, at 6:03 PM, Lukas Smith wrote:
Eventually relational databases managed to take a good chunk of the market because they have the advantage of making it easy to relate data without being forced to duplicate information.
MODS makes pretty extensive use of xlink, and the LoC is developing a companion schema to handle so-called "authority data" like names and such. That coupled with XQuery in an XML DB ought to be able handle the data duplication problem.
Bruce
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