Editing Distributed database

There are several forms of '''distributed database''':

*the normal [[web]] in which URIs change often and are inconsistent, e.g. across [[wiki code]] releases, which is really inexcusable given [[mod_rewrite]]
*[[standard wiki URI]]s making uniformly licensed and formatted articles available, e.g. [[public domain interwiki]] or [[GFDL corpus]] [[wikitext standard]] collections, at URIs which are easy to remember and persistent
*semi-structured wikitext with [[interwiki link standard]]s and [[interwiki identity standard]]s that make it possible to specify "what" and "who" in a way that works across an entire corpus - this would create a true [[GFDL Corpus]]
*standardized [[XML DTD]] and [[XML-Schema]]s, e.g. as proposed for health care [http://www.hl7.org/library/committees/structure/minutes/Minutes041999.doc here]
*[[object-oriented database]]s like [[ORB]] to make the data more consistently available via one programmatic interface;
*[[relational database]]s that further structure the data but restrict data types to a fixed set;  Typically these are quite complex to truly distribute, but see [[relational state transfer]] for how this might be done with help from:
*[[peer to peer]] networks that are more strictly hierarchical and reliant on [[namespace mechanics]] to match finder and publisher, e.g. [[Overnet]], some [[REST]] equivalents now in early testing

Any of these might be required in [[Distributed Consumerium]]