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APPENDIX: BIBLIOGRAPHICAL
ESSAY
Except for the 1983 and 1988 articles, all the references listed
here are readily accessible by IT professionals. Those two articles
are listed because of their seminal importance in the field of
temporal data management.
1983: The Allen Relationships
James F. Allen. “Maintaining Knowledge About Temporal
Intervals.” Communications of the ACM (November 1983), 26
(11), 832-843. This article defined a set of 13 positional
relationships between two time periods along a common time-
line. These relationships are a partitioning of all possible posi-
tional temporal relationships. They are mutually exclusive, and
there are no others.
1988: Architecture for a Business and
Information System
B. A. Devlin and P. T. Murphy. “An Architecture for a Business
and Information System.” IBM Systems Journal (1988), 27(1). To the
best of our knowledge, this article is the origin of data ware-
housing in just as incontrovertible a sense as Dr. E. F. Codd's early
articles were the origins of relational theory.
1996: Building the Data Warehouse
William Inmon. Building the Data Warehouse, 2nd ed.
(John Wiley, 1996). (The first edition was apparently published
in 1991, but we can find no reliable references to it.) With this
book, Inmon began his work of introducing the concepts of data
warehousing to the rest of the IT profession, in the process
extending the concept into several iterations of his own data
warehousing architecture.
