A high-level visual language for generating Web structures

Author

Minas, Mark ; Shklar, Leon

Author_Institution

Comput. Sci. Dept., Erlangen-Nurnberg Univ., Germany

fYear

1996

fDate

3-6 Sep 1996

Firstpage

284

Lastpage

285

Abstract

In earlier work, the authors discussed using data encapsulation to provide integrated access to large amounts of heterogeneous information through WWW browsers. They describe a visual data modeling language which supports the generation of metadata entities to encapsulate raw data. A prototype version of an interpreter for their interactive Visual Repository Definition Language (VRDL) is now operational and may be used for building and maintaining information repositories

Keywords

Internet; data encapsulation; data structures; information retrieval; interactive programming; program interpreters; visual languages; visual programming; WWW browsers; Web structure generation; heterogeneous information; high-level visual language; information repository building; information repository maintenance; integrated access; interactive Visual Repository Definition Language; interpreter; metadata entity generation; raw data encapsulation; visual data modeling language; Buildings; Computer science; Data encapsulation; Indexing; Large scale integration; Programming profession; Prototypes; Software prototyping; Software reusability; World Wide Web;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visual Languages, 1996. Proceedings., IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Boulder, CO

ISSN

1049-2615

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7508-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VL.1996.545299

Filename

545299