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A Categorical Formalism for Interoperability based on the Information Resource Dictionary Standard (IRDS)

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Brian Rossiter

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Abstract

Interoperability is considered in the context of the ISO standards for the Information Resource Dictionary System (IRDS) which provide a complete definition of an information system from real-world abstractions through constructs employed for data and function descriptions to the physical data values held on disk. The IRDS gives a four-level architecture which is considered 1) informally in terms of an interpretation of the levels and the level-pairs between them, 2) in terms of mappings between the levels and 3) formally in terms of a composition of functors and adjoints across the various levels. Two examples are given of the application of IRDS in a categorical context, one comparing the mappings from abstractions to values in relational and object-based systems, the other comparing the mappings from the concept of time to date representations in a number of different approaches. Such comparisons provide a route for interoperability between heterogeneous systems.


Publication metadata

Author(s): Rossiter BN, Heather MA, Nelson DA

Publication type: Report

Publication status: Published

Series Title: Department of Computing Science Technical Report Series

Year: 2000

Pages: 22

Print publication date: 01/01/2000

Source Publication Date: 2000

Report Number: 717

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/717.pdf


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