FUNCTIONAL APPROACH TO SEMISTRUCTURED DATA MANAGEMENT AND ITS APPLICATION IN IMPLEMENTATION OF DIGITAL LIBRARIES.
O. Juravleva, K. Lisovsky, E. Tomusjak, G. Tomusjak

This presentation considers functional programming techniques of semistructured data management and their application to digital libraries. Benefits of S-expressions for representation of XML data and possible ways of their utilization are considered.

The presentation also considers the role of the semistructured data schema in context of the functional programming approach and proposes a technique for implementation of digital libraries and collections without a predefined schema.

Possibility for implementation of a Quilt-like query language is discussed and demonstrated.