Data Base Design Task

A Data Base Design Task is a modeling task that produces a database model (for a data base).

• AKA: Data Model Creation.
• Context:
  • Input: Information about Data.
  • output: Database Model.
  • It can range from being a Heuristic Data Modeling Task to being an Empirical Data Modeling Task.
  • It can involve a Database Normalization Task.
  • It can be performed by a Data Modeler.
  • It can range from being a Conceptual Data Model Design Task, to being a Logical Data Model Design Task, to being a Physical Database Schema Design Task.
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• Example(s):
  • an Ontology Design Task/Ontology Engineering Task.
  • Enterprise Data Modeling.
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Database Creation Task.
  • a Process Modeling Task.
  • a Database Population Task.
  • a Data Mining Task.
  • a DBMS Maintenance Task.
  • a Vector Space Modeling Task.
• See: Database Modeling Language, Metadata Modeling, Data Summarization.

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