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the database (i.e. of the link between data and what they represent). All
selection and representation criteria are thus described in specific textual
documents, as little ambiguous as possible, namely the database
specifications. They are used as guidelines for database capture and may
be very rich but complex (see example in Figure 1 ) 3 .
3 All examples in this paper originate from actual specifications (from IGN France),
originally in French and translated here for the sake of clarity.