New Dimension in Relational Database Preservation: rising the abstraction level
Ricardo André Pereira Freitas, José Carlos Ramalho · iPRES · 2011
The work addressed in this paper focuses on the preservation of the conceptual model within a specific class of digital objects: Relational Databases. Previously, a neutral format was adopted to pursue the goal of platform independence and to achieve a standard format in the digital preservation of relational databases, both data and structure (logical model). Currently, in this project, we address the preservation of relational databases by focusing on the conceptual model of the database, considering the database semantics as an important preservation ”property”. For the representation of this higher layer of abstraction present in databases we use an ontology based approach. At this higher