Bundles in Captivity: An Application of Superimposed Information

What do you do to make sense of a mass of information on a given topic? Paradoxically, you likely add yet more information to the pile: annotations, underlining, bookmarks, cross-references. We want to build digital information systems for managing such added or superimposed information and support applications that create and manipulate it. We find that requirements for a superimposed information system can be quite different from those for a traditional database management system: a lightweight implementation, multi-model information structures, "schema-later" data entry, interacting with data that is "outside the box" (controlled by other applications), and support, rather than removal, of redundancy. We report here on SLIMPad, a superimposed application, which was inspired by the "bundling" of information elements from disparate sources we observed in a medical setting. We propose an architecture for superimposed applications and information managemen...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2001
• Where: ICDE
• Authors: Lois M. L. Delcambre, David Maier, Shawn Bowers, Mathew Weaver, Longxing Deng, Paul Gorman, Joan Ash, Mary Lavelle, Jason Lyman
• Keywords: Base Information Sources, Database, Digital Information Systems, ICDE 2001, Multi-model Information Structures