End-User Programming for Scientific Databases

科学数据库的最终用户编程

• 批准号: 9201652
• 负责人: Mary Berlyn
• 金额: $ 35.18万
• 依托单位: Yale University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 1993
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1993-01-15 至 1998-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9201652&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: End; User; Programming; Scientific; Databases

This project will develop an end-user oriented tool for constructing scientific databases. The purpose of the tool is to radically reduce the time and expense of designing, implementing and maintaining complex scientific databases by generating database and user-interface software automatically from declarative, easily understood high-level specifications. Specifically, the tool will generate SYBASE databases with X-Window interfaces written in C++ code. The tool will be developed in two stages: an initial kernel and an advanced stage. The kernel will support the development and maintenance of database designs and the automatic generation of implementations from them. This phase will focus on automating the development of a generic type of database application with a number of features specifically oriented towards scientific needs, including the ability to annotate facts with references or authorities, facilities for handling synonyms and technical thesauri, and self-documenting data models. The kernel will be adapted and generalized from software developed previously by the authors of this proposal for scientific database applications, including a prototype application generator of the type proposed. In the second phase we will use the kernel as a framework in which to investigate more advanced problems, specifically, how to expand the scope of the applications which can easily be generated using the tool. In this phase we will identify specific classes of functionality not currently supported and develop extensions to support them. We expect that these extensions will involve the incorporation of restricted languages for specifying fragments of functionality, such as rules for constructing names or default values. Finally we will attempt to circulate the tool among those segments of the biological community involved in database development, and incorporate their feedback into the design.

该项目将开发一个面向最终用户的工具， 建立科学数据库。该工具的目的是 从根本上减少设计、实施 并通过生成数据库来维护复杂的科学数据库 和用户界面软件自动从声明，很容易 了解高级规格。具体而言，该工具将 用C++编写的X-Window接口生成SYBASE数据库 代码. 该工具将分两个阶段开发： 和一个高级阶段内核将支持开发， 维护数据库设计和自动生成 从他们身上实现。这一阶段将侧重于自动化 开发一个通用类型的数据库应用程序， 专门面向科学需求的功能， 包括用参考文献注释事实的能力， 处理同义词和技术问题的机构、设施 叙词表和自文档化数据模型。 内核将是 改编和推广了以前由 这一科学数据库应用提案的作者， 包括所提出的类型的原型应用生成器。 在第二阶段，我们将使用内核作为框架， 研究更高级的问题，具体来说，如何扩展 可以很容易地使用生成的应用程序的范围 工具。 在这个阶段，我们将确定特定类别的 目前不支持的功能，并开发扩展， 支持他们。我们预计，这些扩展将涉及 纳入限制性语言，用于指定 功能，如用于构造名称或默认 价值观 最后，我们将尝试将该工具在 数据库中涉及的生物群落的那些部分 开发，并将他们的反馈纳入设计。