Abstract
The opinion is presented that database design is less forgiv ing when it comes to intellectual ambiguities than are the traditional methods and tools of the art historian. A database cannot perform for the art historian until he is absolutely certain about his own definition of an atom of art-historical information, and about exactly which interatomic relations interest him. The author tests this argument against both existing and hypothetical database systems.
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