Lessons from a "Living In a Database" Graphical Query Interface

Summary: Bitmap-terminal, mouse-driven graphical ER interface for LID, diverging from PDB-style presentations. Dynamic graphics that track data changes are promising but hard to implement; LID exposes an inadequacy: set-based data operations, and proposes an extension. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2300
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1984
Pagerank: 6.8017742e-05
Overall Rank: 4,257 | 70.80%
DOI: 10.1145/602259.602273

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Dennis Fogg (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{fogg_sigmod84,
        title = {{Lessons from a "Living In a Database" Graphical Query Interface}},
        author = {Fogg, Dennis},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '84},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/602259.602273},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/602259.602273},
        year = {1984}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,210	PESTO: An Integrated Query/Browser for Object Databases	1996	VLDB	8.9427694e-05
2,483	ISIS: Interface for a Semantic Information System	1985	SIGMOD	8.5177061e-05
3,289	An Object-Oriented Approach to Multimedia Databases	1986	SIGMOD	7.5556715e-05
13,225	NetBook - A Data Model to Support Knowledge Exploration	1985	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
703	TIMBER: A Sophisticated Relation Browser	1982	VLDB	0.0001485124
1,275	An Entity-based Database User Interface	1980	SIGMOD	0.00011372804

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