Data Abstraction

Data abstraction is the process of distilling data down to its essentials. In an object schema, the abstract data model is implemented as a graph. The following figure shows such a graph structure for a genealogical database. For more information on data abstraction, see the items under "more detail" below. For another example of data abstraction, see the .

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