Progressive Revelation
Robert A. (Bob) Morris
ram at CS.UMB.EDU
Fri Mar 3 08:02:11 CET 2000
Kevin Thiele writes:
> Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2000 15:58:08 +1100
> From: Kevin Thiele <kevin.thiele at PI.CSIRO.AU>
> To: TDWG-SDD at usobi.org
> Subject: Re: Progressive Revelation
>
> Dear Mike,
>
> you're right of course that a Best algorithm can to some extent emulate
> Progressive Revelation as I described it, but I think a fully worked-out PR
> model would go further. Also, of course, it's silly to work from a fully
> populated rectangular matrix if there's no intention of using all of it.
> Better perhaps to use a data model that has a "matrix" representation or
> equivalent at its core for the global data and a cloud of "data bits" for
> the non-global stuff.
i.e., an object oriented database ..... :-)
Bob Morris
>
> Cheers - k
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