ADEPTE project: an individual federated database on a smart card

In the ADEPTE project, we consider a new domain of communication, that between individuals and organisations. An individual may expect to access their own data, created, managed and located on autonomous and heterogeneous existing information systems. We propose a system using smart cards, where each card houses a personal DB, which federates data located on logically separate systems in such a manner that data location is transparent to its user. The problems of DB schema and transaction management are therefore discussed