A pre-relational databases datamodel. "Preceeded" by the relational model since the flexibility of this makes it hard to work with. Now re-invented in RDF :)
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O. Hassan, O. Aderibigbe, O. Efijemue, and T. Onasanya. Proceedings of the 2005 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, page 906--908. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2024)