Curated databases in bioinformatics and other disciplines are the result of a great deal of
manual annotation, correction and transfer of data from other sources. Provenance …

The widespread adoption of XML holds out the promise that document structure can be
exploited to specify precise database queries. However, the user may have only a limited …

Database researchers have striven to improve the capability of a database in terms of both
performance and functionality. We assert that the usability of a database is as important as …

After more than two decades of its use, XML is not only a standard format for exchanging
data between different (Web) applications but also a model for a family of some emerging or …

As the world is increasingly networked and digitized, the data we store has more and more
frequently been chopped, baked, diced and stewed. In consequence, there is an increasing …

Publisher Summary Traditional databases allow for the storage and retrieval of large
amounts of data, but do not make any concessions for uncertainty in the data. In many …

Extensible markup language (XML) is emerging as a de facto standard for information
exchange among various applications on the World Wide Web. There has been a growing …

MPEG-7 constitutes a promising standard for the description of multimedia content. It can be
expected that a lot of applications based on MPEG-7 media descriptions will be set up in the …

Clinical data are dynamic in nature, often arranged hierarchically and stored as free text and
numbers. Effective management of clinical data and the transformation of the data into …

In recent years,“document store” NoSQL systems have exploded in popularity. A large part
of this popularity has been driven by the adoption of the JSON data model in these NoSQL …