@TECHREPORT{R-96-21,
ABSTRACTURL = {/publications/cgi-bin/tr-fetch.pl?r-96-21+abstr},
ABSTRACT = {The present paper proposes that a database can often be organized as a
large collection of small text files, each containing the
structured information that relates to a particular object.
This means that the basic idea of WWW pages - small text files
that are cross-linked by symbolic addresses - is generalized to
become a database technique as well. The database pages are
expressed in HORL notation (HyperObject Representation Language).
Just like a WWW browser accesses and reads HTML pages dynamically 
as it needs them, our WWDB database system accesses and reads HORL 
pages as it needs them in the course of its data processing
operations. When an HORL page is read by the database system, its
contents are converted to an internal representation, and
it does not have to be read again during the same session.

In this paper, we first describe the application within which the
WWDB concepts were developed, and then proceed to a description of the
essential technical characteristics of the existing, experimental
implementation. Finally we discuss what conclusions can be drawn from
the project so far, and the perspectives for continued use of this
technique.
},
HTMLURL = {/publications/cgi-bin/tr-fetch.pl?r-96-21+html},
NUMBER = {R-96-21},
INSTITUTION = ida,
ADDRESS = idaaddr,
YEAR = {1996},
AUTHOR = {Sandewall, Erik},
EMAIL = {erisa@ida.liu.se},
TITLE = {Towards a World-Wide Data Base}