FEMUS: A Federated Multilingual Database System
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This paper describes the objectives, choices, and first results of the FEMUS project in building a federated multilingual database system. The focus is on semantic issues, concentrating, in particular, on data model translations and database integration in a heterogeneous environment. Also discussed are mechanisms for exchanging data and metadata, and related implementation aspects. __________ + This work is supported by the Schweizerischer Schulrat. * Present address: Department of Computer Science, University of Ulm, Germany.
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