Hello, I have contributed a paper about migrating bibliographic records to CouchDB. It was published today in issue 13 of Code4Lib, the journal for programming librarians and library programmers:
http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/4893 I believe CouchDB is an amazing tool for libraries, as I explain in the paper using a more academic tone and lots of citations. Of interest to CouchDB practitioners is the quick intro to semistructuted data model, a theory that supports thinking about JSON, XML, MARC etc. (Abiteboul, 1999). Research into the semistructured model includes results such as algorithms to extract a formal schema from actual datasets, methods for dealing with shared or duplicate data, and normal forms adapted to semistructured schemas (Tok, 2005). Those are two highly recommended books for CouchDB DBAs. ABITEBOUL, Serge; BUNEMAN, Peter; SUCIU, Dan. Data on the Web: From Relations to Semistructured Data and XML. San Francisco: Morgan Kaufmann, 1999. TOK, Wang Ling; LEE, Mong Li; DOBBIE, Gillian. Semistructured Database Design. Boston: Springer Science, 2005. -- Luciano Ramalho programador repentista || stand-up programmer Twitter: @luciano
