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Dbms Gis Design

This document discusses database management systems and GIS database design. It defines key concepts like data, data models, and databases. It also outlines some requirements of digital databases like security, reliability, and integrity. The document introduces database management systems as software that manages databases and provides functions like data definition, manipulation, retrieval, and transaction management. It also describes the ANSI-SPARC method for designing databases to support structural requirements of access.

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Dbms Gis Design

This document discusses database management systems and GIS database design. It defines key concepts like data, data models, and databases. It also outlines some requirements of digital databases like security, reliability, and integrity. The document introduces database management systems as software that manages databases and provides functions like data definition, manipulation, retrieval, and transaction management. It also describes the ANSI-SPARC method for designing databases to support structural requirements of access.

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Database Management Systems and GIS Design

Overview

This presentation deals with the relationship between database processing requirements,
database management systems, and GIS database design theory.

Data, Data Models and Databases

Data has been defined as a collection of facts, concepts, or instructions in a formalized
manner suitable for communication or processing by humans (McDonnell and Kemp
1995). It has come to be used as a generic term for any information used by a digital
computer.




In this class we will frequently use a
related term data model. In the broad
sense this refers to an abstraction of the
real world which incorporates only
those properties thought to be relevant
to the application at hand. In specific,
IS, terms Worboys (1995) has defined
it as a model of the structure of the
information system, independent of
implementation details. McDonnell
and Kemp (1995) have referred to this
as the mechanistic representation and
organization of spatial data.

In a digital computer environment, we
often interact with data that has been
compiled into a database. McDonnell
and Kemp (1995) define this as a
collection of data organized according
to a conceptual schema. A schema is a
structured framework.








The origins and forms of data
According to Laurini and Thompson (1992), data may have among the following origins:
Captured recorded by devices
Interpreted some kind of human intervention
Field sketches
Surveys and questionnaires
Encoded as in maps or digital data
Structured organized in some way

Requirements of digital databases

In the process of providing functions, including the derivation of information from
structured (organized) data, certain requirements have been identified in information
science. These include:

Security -- access control and backup
Reliability availability of the system providing data
Integrity maintenance of linkages between applications and data
Providing user views of data access by class of user
Being independent of the underlying data -- access without precise knowledge of
implementation details
Providing support for metadata data that adds information to the database
High performance access and retrieval
Providing concurrency to users simultaneous access to data

All of these requirements need to be managed by some type of software (application).
Those types of systems responding to these requirements are called database management
systems (DBMS).
A DBMS is literally a
software system that manages
a database
A system providing the
functions:

Data definition
Manipulation
Retrieval
Transaction
Management
Backup/Recovery




The ANSI-SPARC Method

The operation of a DBMS is largely dependent on the structure of the data(base) that it
accesses. What is required is a method for designing databases that support the structural
requirements of access. To this end the American National Standards Institute (ANSI)
Systems Planning and Requirements Committee (SPARC) has developed formalism for
dealing with database design issues. The method identifies four levels of data modeling,
as a method of tackling the problem of database design.



This method is employed as a critical part of the design of information systems, such as
the Life-Cycle approach. There are many varieties of the approach, but one common one
is the so-called waterfall model.








IS Design
o place topics of database and DBMS design in a context for GIS, Worboys (1995) has
l
of any

G

T
developed a model for GIS database design. The model responds to the requirements of
all information systems and extends it at the beginning to understand the area of use or
application domain at hand. The analysis phase has been broken down into an
application domain model. This model is, in turn, transformed into a conceptua
computational model. This is said to be computationally tractable but independent
specific approach. The logical model is imbedded in a particular paradigm, for example,
a relational approach. The physical model is the representation of the real world as
computational processes.




Citations

Larini, Robert and Derek Thompson. 1992. Fundamentals of Spatial Information
Systems. Academic Press Inc. San Diego, CA.

McDonnell, Rachael and Karen Kemp. 1995. International GIS Dictionary.
GeoInformation International, Cambridge.

Worboys, Michael. 1995. GIS: A Computing Perspective. Taylor and Francis, London.

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