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The paper presupposes a team of application developers using an application generator served by a relational database (RDB). The application grows by including not only routines for input/output, but by accumulating new relations, the latter representing data-definition activity by the developers.
A data dictionary (DD) is needed
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to interrelate relations,
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to relate these to routines, input streams and reports,
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to produce auditing reports and clerical procedures manuals.
The benefits and technical problems of maintaining the DD itself as a RDB are treated.
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Clark, I.A. (1976). Relational data dictionary implementation. In: Hasselmeier, H., Spurth, W.G. (eds) Data Base Systems. IBM 1975. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 39. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-07612-3_12
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