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标题：Cross-tier Web Programming for Curated Databases: a Case Study
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作者：Simon Fowler ; Simon Harding ; Joanna Sharman 等
期刊名称：International Journal of Digital Curation
印刷版ISSN：1746-8256
出版年度：2020
页码：15-29
DOI：10.2218/ijdc.v15i1.717
出版社：University of Edinburgh
摘要：Curated databases have become important sources of information across several scientifc disciplines, and as the result of manual work of experts, often become important reference works. Features such as provenance tracking, archiving, and data citation are widely regarded as important features for the curated databases, but implementing such features is challenging, and small database projects often lack the resources to do so. A scientifc database application is not just the relational database itself, but also an ecosystem of web applications to display the data, and applications which allow data curation. Supporting advanced curation features requires changing all of these components, and there is currently no way to provide such capabilities in a reusable way. Cross-tier programming languages have been proposed to simplify the creation of web applications, where developers can write an application in a single, uniform language. Consequently, database queries and updates can be written in the same language as the rest of the program, and at least in principle, it should be possible to provide curation features reusably via program transformations. As a frst step towards this goal, it is important to establish that realistic curated databases can be implemented in a cross-tier programming language.