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Kent, W., "The many forms of a single fact", Spring Compcon89 thirty-fourth IEEE Computer Society International Conference, IEEE Computer Society, February-March 1989, pp. 438-443. Google
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441 ;;Quote: the variety of data formats for simple facts makes it difficult to interchange data between sites and applications
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