ID: An intelligent information dictionary system

An information-oriented data dictionary describes the characteristics of the information represented in another (or “object”) database. Such description is different from that obtained by use of conventional data dictionary systems which produce primarily descriptions of the structural characteristics of the database. Information-oriented properties of data are related to the semantics of the database, i.e., the real world entities represented by data objects and their meaningful properties ( as defined by the database developer). This paper also presents a conceptual design approach and a database architecture for ID, an intelligent information-oriented dictionary system. This architecture is presented in terms of ER model constructs.