SourceSight: Enabling Effective Source Selection

Summary: SourceSight enables interactive exploration of vast, heterogeneous data sources for integration tasks. It introduces a novel multi-level source quality index and techniques to discover and evaluate sources, enabling efficient, granularity-aware source selection. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 5237
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2016
Pagerank: 5.3309706e-05
Overall Rank: 9,019 | 38.13%
DOI: 10.1145/2882903.2899403

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Theodoros Rekatsinas (Stanford University)
2. Amol Deshpande (University of Maryland)
3. Xin Luna Dong (Google)
4. Lise Getoor (University of California Santa Cruz)
5. Divesh Srivastava (AT&T)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{rekatsinas_sigmod16,
        title = {{SourceSight: Enabling Effective Source Selection}},
        author = {Rekatsinas, Theodoros and Deshpande, Amol and Dong, Xin Luna and Getoor, Lise and Srivastava, Divesh},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '16},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/2882903.2899403},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2882903.2899403},
        year = {2016}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
7,125	Computational Fact Checking: A Content Management Perspective	2018	VLDB	5.6960323e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
161	Mining Frequent Patterns without Candidate Generation	2000	SIGMOD	0.00027981772
317	Annotating and Searching Web Tables Using Entities, Types and Relationships	2010	VLDB	0.00021402049
699	Data Integration with Uncertainty	2007	VLDB	0.0001487423
739	Finding Related Tables	2012	SIGMOD	0.0001448231
955	Truth Finding on the Deep Web: Is the Problem Solved?	2013	VLDB	0.00012996675
1,077	DataHub: Collaborative Data Science & Dataset Version Management at Scale	2015	CIDR	0.00012269438
1,576	Data Markets in the Cloud: An Opportunity for the Database Community	2011	VLDB	0.00010317008
2,322	Extraction and Integration of Partially Overlapping Web Sources	2013	VLDB	8.7526172e-05
4,087	Less is More: Selecting Sources Wisely for Integration	2013	VLDB	6.9141684e-05
6,297	Characterizing and Selecting Fresh Data Sources	2014	SIGMOD	5.9228047e-05
12,094	Finding Quality in Quantity: The Challenge of Discovering Valuable Sources for Integration	2015	CIDR	5.093636e-05

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