Extracting Schema from an OEM Database

While the schema-less feature of the OEM (Object Exchange Model) gives fiexibility in representing semi-structured data, it brings difficulty in formulating database queries.Extracting schema from an OEM database then becomes an important research topic.This paper presents a new approach to this topic with the following features. (1) In addition to representing the nested label structure of an OEM database, the proposed OEM schema keeps upto-date information about instance objects of the database.The object…