Modeling Temporal Information With JSON

Abstract

As a ubiquitous form of data in human natural life, time has been widely used in military, finance, medical treatment, environment and other fields. Therefore, temporal data models used to express the dynamic development process of data have been proposed constantly. Currently, the main research achievements focus on temporal database and temporal XML. With the rapid development and popularization of network technology, the requirement of efficiency and security is getting higher and higher. JSON, a new generation of data exchange language, has been widely used because of its lightweight, fast parsing and high transmission efficiency. However, modeling temporal information with JSON has not been studied enough. The chapter proposes a temporal data model based on JSON. What is more, the temporal query language and the JSON Schema is also mentioned.