Week 4 Readings - Wikipedia Database article

Since I work with databases daily I found this article an easy read. It appears the relational model is still holding its own as the predominant database model, and development has turned instead to expanding the range of information formats a database can store, organize and provide access to. I think that putting unstructured data in a database is crucial to the advancement of digitization. More and more organizations (and not just libraries) are turning to document imaging for storage and retrieval of hard copy files and databases have to make access to that data transparent at the end user level. I think it's good that these new concepts are being integrated into mainstream products--this will help developers to advance the availability of these resources faster. The demand for it is certainly there.