The scenario
A database schema for a journal collector system that organizes journals, issues, articles, authors, and their attribution.
What is in this drawing
Read the decisions behind it.
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Composite primary key for ArticleAuthor handles many-to-many author attribution
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Foreign keys reflect one-to-many relationships from Journal to Issue and Issue to Article
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Unique keys on ISSN, DOI, and ORCID enforce entity integrity
When modeling scholarly content storage, bibliographic databases, or reference managers requiring normalization of journals, issues, articles, and authorship.
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