xml-dev - Re: Various presentations, schema concepts, etc.

["Manola,Frank A." <fmanola@mitre.org>]

Kay Michael wrote:
> 
> > AFAIK, the terms "schema" and "sub-schema" originated from
> > the work of the CODASYL Data Base Task Group (DBTG) in the late '60s and
> > early '70s.
> 
> For the record, I think DBTG took the concepts (I'm not sure about the
> terminology) from Honeywell's IDS database system developed in the mid
> 1960s. Charlie Bachmann was a key player in both.
> 
> Mike Kay
> 

My understanding is that what DBTG took from IDS was its data
structuring concepts, records and the "set" (owner/member record
relationship).  I believe the concepts of schema and subschema were
extensions introduced during the course of DBTG's work (my recollection
is that Tax Metaxides, the DBTG Chairman, had a lot to do with
introducing these concepts).

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