Thanks for sharing. The article is interesting and demonstrates a very useful implementation of CouchDB.
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Luciano Ramalho <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
