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Data Modeling

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Handbook on Data Management in Information Systems

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Data modeling is an activity aimed at describing the structure of information to be stored in a database. Over the years, data modeling has evolved from a focus on machine-oriented constructs to a focus on capturing the structure of knowledge as perceived by users for whom the database is developed. The evolution of data modeling has paralleled a shift in emphasis from technical issues of efficiency in storage and retrieval to conceptual issues of capturing more of the semantics of the data. This chapter traces the evolution of data modeling from this perspective and poses some possible areas of future research.

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  1. Faculty of Business Administration, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NF, Canada

    Jeffrey Parsons

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  1. Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Noskowskiego 12, 61-704, Poznań, Poland

    Jacek Błażewicz

  2. Faculty of Business Administration, Memorial University of Newfoundland, NF A1B 3X5, St. John’s, Canada

    Wieslaw Kubiak

  3. Institute of Computing Science, Poznań University of Technology, ul. Piotrowo 3a, 60-965, Poznań, Poland

    Tadeusz Morzy

  4. Information and Computer Science Laboratory, Telcordia Technologies, 445 South Street MCC-1J346B, 07960, Morristown, NJ, USA

    Marek Rusinkiewicz

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Parsons, J. (2003). Data Modeling. In: Błażewicz, J., Kubiak, W., Morzy, T., Rusinkiewicz, M. (eds) Handbook on Data Management in Information Systems. International Handbooks on Information Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24742-5_3

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