On Monday 25 November 2002 06:00, you wrote: > > What compromises for expediency are present in OIO? > > Glad you asked :-). We have been discussing OIO's database schema over the > last week or so. The main thrust of the discussion surrounds OIO's use of > lots of tables, rather than few tables with lots of rows.
There seemed to me to be a larger one in the storage of forms, with the lack of a data dictionary making it unfeasible to share records across multiple systems and places. But the creation of record and form is very handy - expedient. Thrusts in the UK are toward interoperability. and this requires such dictionaries to be shared and is helped by an underlying ontology. -- From one of the Linux desktops of Dr Adrian Midgley http://www.defoam.net/
