NCJ Number
98729
Journal
ACM Transactions on Database Systems Volume: 9 Issue: 1 Dated: (March 1984) Pages: 72-88
Date Published
1984
Length
17 pages
Annotation
This pamphlet describes the design criteria, programming capabilities, and system construction of the criminal docketing data base developed for Federal courts by the Federal Judicial Center.
Abstract
The introduction briefly describes the characteristics of the large-scale computing systems being developed to provide automated support for the management of Federal courts. The body of the pamphlet focuses on one application area, the criminal docketing data base, which provides data pertinent for case tracking and reporting. The data base contents and structure are outlined, followed by descriptions of the data base software facilities developed for project management and programming. Features of the system implementation languages are identified. The SAIL programming language is reported to be the implementation language for programming the criminal docketing data base. An example demonstrates the use of SAIL as a host language in a data base management system. The discussion of the data manipulation system describes the software interface that permits the SAIL programming language to be extended to use and enhance the DBMS-10 network-type data base management system. The use of an in-core data base consisting of SAIL record structures is first described. The pamphlet then presents the methods by which the application programmer may use the data manipulation language verbs in an extended data manipulation facility. The data base management system described is reported to have been successfully used in the development of the criminal docketing system, which became operational in late 1976, and is now being used in 15 of the largest Federal district courts. Twenty-six references are listed.