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Current hypertext systems have been widely and effectively used on relatively small data volumes. But the law is concerned with large complex data sets. The potential of database technology is explored for aiding the implementation of hypertext systems holding very large amounts of complex data. Databases meet many requirements of the hypermedium: persistent data management, large volumes, data modelling, multi-level architecture with abstractions and views, meta-data integrated with operational data, short-term transaction processing and high-level end-user languages for searching and updating data. To illustrate the potential for the use of data bases, a system implementing the storage, retrieval and recall of trails through hypertext comprising textual complex objects is described. Weaknesses in current database systems for handling the legal models are discussed.
Author(s): Rossiter BN, Sillitoe TJ, Heather MA
Publication type: Report
Publication status: Published
Series Title: Department of Computing Science Technical Report Series
Year: 1993
Pages: 34
Print publication date: 01/12/1993
Source Publication Date: December 1993
Report Number: 464
Institution: Department of Computing Science, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Place Published: Newcastle upon Tyne
URL: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/publications/trs/papers/464.pdf
