cid 977c9137dbb868a1edf69caf20c553cf1615a2c9a14444932f04accb3bf1598e · original · open access · via openalex
Title: METABASE: A distributed metadata databases with OSF/DCE UUIDs Authors: Yangkun Zhang Venue: Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Year: 2019 Canonical: doi:10.17615/cs3q-d825 URL: https://doi.org/10.17615/cs3q-d825 Collector: openalex OA: true ABSTRACT Metabase is a model for a metadata database that is based on a relational instead of a flat model. At the core of the Metabase concept is that every document, idea, and concept represented in the metadata repository is represented by an Universally Unique ID (UUID) that is always identical and unique. Hence, every concept can be searched for and replicated across various machines without needing to worry about name collisions. The relational tables in Metabase also allows complex metadata which cannot easily fit into a conventional "flat" metadata scheme to be used.