IDENTIFIER VOCABULARY DATA ACCESS METHOD AND SYSTEM

摘要

A method of organizing, managing, and providing interactive access to data in a database is disclosed,along with a program and a system for implementing the method. Associations between each data Item and at least one ItemSelector are established and stored. A predefined (but modifiable) Vocabulary of ItemSelectors sufficient to describe each Item of the database is created. Presently selected Items aredescribed by a combination of associations defined by an appropriate Boolen combination of eachItemSelector in a presently selected set of ItemSelectors. A user controls the presently selected set byadding an ItemSelector from a presented group, or by removing a previously selected ItemSelector. Thesystem ideally makes available to the user all relevant ItemSelectors - those which, if added to the presentlyselected set, would result in a set that describes at least one extant data Item. The system ideally makes allpresently selected Items available to the user.