Design considerations of the GOQL interface

Author

Keramopoulos, Euclides ; Pouyioutas, Philippos ; Ptohos, Tasos

Author_Institution

Dept. of Informatics, TEI of Thessaloniki

fYear

2004

fDate

7-10 June 2004

Firstpage

361

Abstract

The graphical object query language (GOQL) is a query language that complies with the ODMG standard and which runs on top of the O₂ DBMS. The GOQL user interface comprises the user´s view (UV) and the folders window (FW). The UV is a graphical representation of an ODMG database scheme, which hides from end-users most of the perplexing details of the object-oriented database model. The FW is a condensed version of the UV that serves as canvas upon which ad-hoc queries are constructed. The paper addresses principles behind the design of user interfaces and discusses features and characteristics of the GOQL user interface

Keywords

data models; graphical user interfaces; object-oriented databases; query languages; query processing; visual databases; visual languages; ODMG database scheme; ODMG standard; ad-hoc query; graphical object query language; graphical object query language user interface; graphical representation; object-oriented database model; Computer interfaces; Computer science; Database languages; Database systems; Hardware; Informatics; Object oriented databases; Object oriented modeling; Spatial databases; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Technology Interfaces, 2004. 26th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Cavtat

Print_ISBN

953-96769-9-1

Type

conf

Filename

1372433