Functional and Database Architecture Design.

Abstract

Much attention and considerable effort has been focused recently on the collection and storage of descriptions of an organization's data and information resources. Some organizations have been quite successful in this collection and storage effort. A different problem, which is more difficult to deal with, has been to provide an easy, effective mechanism for users to access this information once it is stored. This problem generally reduces to determining the existence of information. The Locator and Classifier for Universe Standardization (LOCUS)is a concept which seeks to provide a tool which will aid the user in determining the existence and location of the information about data' (i.e., metadata) which is required to perform some task. It is important to emphasize here that LOCUS is a system which operates on metadata, not data itself.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 26, 1983
Accession Number
ADA136275

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Classification
  • Computer Science
  • Databases
  • Dictionaries
  • Environment
  • Geographic Regions
  • Information Processing
  • Information Retrieval
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Language
  • Metadata
  • Organizational Structure
  • Standards
  • Storage
  • User Interface
  • Vocabulary

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Geospatial Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence Analytics
  • Systems Analysis and Design