That was the sort of table I had in mind in my initial question. I've
thought about adding an extra column that indicates which fields are
used as keys for which views.
On 4/9/2012 12:43 PM, Paul Davis wrote:
There's really not much in the way of a formal definition/diagram for
JSON documents. If I were going to try and mollify a reviewer I'd
probably generate a three column table with a key/path column, type,
and intent.
Also, in a pinch, UML isn't necessarily a bad way to try and show such
things as long as you have explanatory text describes some of the
assumptions that change since its non-relational.
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 1:34 PM, Kevin R. Coombes
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hmm. This _might_ be what I want, even though my immediate reaction is that
it may be too self-referential to send back to the reviewer. (Is JSON
really the write language/format in which to describe JSON documents?) But
it's a start; thanks.
Kevin
On 4/9/2012 9:41 AM, Jeroen Janssen wrote:
Hi,
Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but there is a draft
JSON schema specification at http://json-schema.org/ which is "a JSON
based format for defining the structure of JSON data".
Best regards,
Jeroen
On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Kevin R. Coombes
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
We just had a manuscript that describes three applications of CouchDB in
bioinformatics accepted with minor revisions. (I think this will be the
first paper describing a CouchDB application in the area of
bioinformatics.)
One of the requested minor changes is for "schematics, data models, etc".
I'm sure that the reviewer is thinking about the kinds of schema
diagrams
that can easily be supplied for a relational database. Other than a
table
or a screenshot showing the reviewer what a typical document looks like
in
these databases, does anyone know of equivalent tools or diagrams to
describe a document-oriented database? Are there any (formal) design or
document conventions that have evolved or are evolving for describing
databases built using Couch?
Kevin
In case anyone wants to take a look at the applications, here are the
URLs:
geneSmash
http://app1.bioinformatics.mdanderson.org/genesmash/_design/basic/index.html
drugBase
http://app1.bioinformatics.mdanderson.org/drugbase/_design/basic/index.html
HapMap-CN
http://app1.bioinformatics.mdanderson.org/hapmap/_design/basic/index.html
