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Version management for scientific databases

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Advances in Database Technology — EDBT '96 (EDBT 1996)

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Scientific databases are used to accession objects representing the results of scientific inquiry, such as genes and DNA sequences. These objects must have stable identifiers that can be used as references in scientific papers and other databases. The requirement for stable object identifiers, however, conflicts with the tendency of scientific data to evolve over time. We present in this paper version management facilities that allow scientific databases to achieve a balance between stable object identifiers and evolving data.

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  1. Information and Computing Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 94720, Berkeley, CA

    I-Min A. Chen & Victor M. Markowitz

  2. Division of Biomedical Information Sciences, Johns Hopkins University, 21205, Baltimore, MD

    Stanley Letovsky, Peter Li & Kenneth H. Fasman

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Peter Apers Mokrane Bouzeghoub Georges Gardarin

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Chen, IM.A., Markowitz, V.M., Letovsky, S., Li, P., Fasman, K.H. (1996). Version management for scientific databases. In: Apers, P., Bouzeghoub, M., Gardarin, G. (eds) Advances in Database Technology — EDBT '96. EDBT 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1057. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0014159

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