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HTML to get no problems with this.
You have a House for youth activity or such a thing? You know the problems if you would like to update a property like prices, beds or others, you must inform all the databases you are listet in. Or if you are a free Database provider for such kind of data, your clients have no interest in updating their data; result your data is inconsistent. Or you are a object user and you wish the actual data on your favourit objects, you must surf over several pages to get the information you need, an everywhere you can get other information, but which information is actual? How to compare if every database provider use other data? This data model try to define a free and open standart to describe your real esteate. It helps all kind of users to get the whole an actual data to speed up your work.
You are the administrator for a campsite for scouts. You provide the data on your own
homepage, on the homepage of the scouting organisation and on two payed databases and
many free databases like wikis or others. Your data contains, depending on database keys like :
beds, rooms, special features, a way to contact adminstration and many more.
If the administration conference decide to
change your price list you must update all this sites with their special
data definition. And we know us self, we hate manual
updates because every database stores other atributes like "price per day", "price with full board", ...
Here REMLS can help to minimize manual updates. You publish one file and for example
you inform the databases that they can read your file or you calculate with the next automatic update
cycle from the databases.
You are the database administrator which collects such kind of data. You have more then 2000 entrys
and try to stay up to date. You must provide forms, to give the users a changes to update,
take studis in useabilety engeniering for best integration and hope that nobody insert wrong or
bad data ( keyword -> vandalism ).