2. IRMAC Getting Business Value from Metadata

3. A Brief History of the Web Web siteYear Info.cern.ch1991 Yahoo1994 IRMAC1995 ebay1995 Google1998 Wikipedia2001 Facebook2004 Twitter2006

4. 2012 – A New IRMAC web site

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7. Data Model (Microsoft Access)

8. Data Model (MySQL)

9. Exploring the data model http://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=METATAILOR The IRMAC data model can be explored using the ‘MetaTailor’ demo…

10. ‘MetaTailor’ was constructed using Oracle Application Express Oracle Application Express (Oracle APEX) - a rapid web application development tool for the Oracle database. Fully supported (Oracle customers) No cost Web-based Easy to create mock ups Easy to deploy (end user opens a URL to access an APEX application) Scalable (can be deployed to laptops, stand-alone servers, or Oracle RAC installations) Server-side processing and validations Strong and supportive user community (especially Oracle APEX forum) Free hosting of demo applications provided by Oracle APEX applications can run on the free Oracle Express Edition (XE) database

11. More Information Contact John Tench Via www.tinca.cawww.tinca.ca Or www.irmac.cawww.irmac.ca