[Sigia-l] integrated catalogues?

[Alexander Johannesen]

On 10/21/05, Listera <listera at rcn.com> wrote:
> The intellectual challenge in having data in two (or more) DBs is the
> difficulty not in making separate data fetches but in aggregating the
> results in a meaningful way at the UI level

But that's just the thing; what's a meaningful way? A DB on wine mixed
with a DB on the life and works of Stephen Hawkings is a tad trickier
to mix than two different DB's on bloated stomache.

As you well know; it depends.

>  As I said in another post, creating an abstraction layer
> between the UI and DB layers solves the aggregation problem, but not the UI
> one.

I think most know this. My point is that there are bigger
non-technical issues at play. Patrick comes from a library perspective
where there are two very destinct user-groups we have to cater to;
academic specialists, and Joe Blow. Sometimes it simply doesn't make
sense to mix them up.


Alex
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