OEM views meeting   12/10/96   - Yue
Attendees: Serge, Jason, Roy, Vasilis, Janet, Yue.

We continued our discussion on OEM view specification. 
Thanks to Jason for preparing a document that describes the syntax
and provides some examples of one way to specify views: using 
Import statement to specify the paths to keep from the original DB
into a view, then by default keeping all the nodes along the paths. 

Details in : http://www-db.stanford.edu/~mchughj/view_spec/view_spec.html

Serge proposed an alternative, which in the first step specifies the
'top level' nodes to appear in a view, then specifies the children of
those nodes to keep in the view. We agree that the two view
specifications only differ in their syntax.

We also discussed the need to use more than one database. LOREL should
add the capability to handle more than one DB.

Next meeting we will discuss how to restructure the DB to form a view, 
e.g., adding/hiding nodes and edges.