> > Long before XML (about 1990, I think) I submitted a VLDB paper about a > database/repository holding software engineering artifacts whose > structure/schema was defined in BNF. Two of the reviewers gave it 9/10, two > of them gave it 2/10. So yes: the traditional database research community, of > whom Stonebraker was for many years the high priest, has problems > understanding data outside their traditional customer/orders/suppliers domain.
There is something else Michael. Unfortunately, your ideas were way TOO EARLY for people to understand them. As they say in business: “being too early is the same of being wrong”. In business timing is everything. (and research in CS is often a comic parody of the industry, not a real scientific field..) The questions are: 1. if you take the exact same paper and submit it today to VLDB, will they understand it now ? (my bet is STILL not) 2. if not VLDB, is there a community who does understand it ? (my bet is JSON community is still too young to get it, unfortunately) If not those, who else ? Which community, or which vertical WOULD get that paper now ? Dana _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk
