DBLP — Some Lessons Learned
Summary: A retrospective on DBLP’s evolution from experimental Web server to foundational CS bibliography, emphasizing undocumented data-modeling choices. Person-centric entity and name modeling yield broadly applicable lessons, with complete XML data and an API enabling experimentation. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Michael Ley (University of Trier)
BibTeX Citation
@article{ley_vldb09,
title = {{DBLP — Some Lessons Learned}},
author = {Ley, Michael},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '09},
doi = {10.14778/1687553.1687577},
url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/1687553.1687577},
year = {2009}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 7 of 7 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7,019 | Just-in-time Data Integration in Action | 2010 | VLDB | 5.7247411e-05 |
| 7,553 | UPI: A Primary Index for Uncertain Databases | 2010 | VLDB | 5.6004812e-05 |
| 7,931 | MESSIAH: Missing Element-Conscious SLCA Nodes Search in XML Data | 2013 | SIGMOD | 5.5181056e-05 |
| 8,582 | RBench: Application-Specific RDF Benchmarking | 2015 | SIGMOD | 5.4081423e-05 |
| 8,956 | A Probabilistic Model for Linking Named Entities in Web Text with Heterogeneous Information Networks | 2014 | SIGMOD | 5.3455323e-05 |
| 11,440 | Autonomously Computable Information Extraction | 2023 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
| 12,134 | TreeScope: Finding Structural Anomalies In Semi-Structured Data | 2015 | VLDB | 5.093636e-05 |
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| 3 | 14,155 | Data Bases in Digital Libraries: Where Computer Science and Information Management Meet | 1998 | PODS |
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| 10 | 2,405 | DBLife: A Community Information Management Platform for the Database Research Community | 2007 | CIDR |