DBLife: A Community Information Management Platform for the Database Research Community

Summary: DBLife: a deployed community information-management platform for the DB research community that bootstraps from an expert seed and uses focused extraction plus entity recognition/disambiguation over heterogeneous Web sources to build an entity-relationship graph. Community feedback refines and evolves the graph and powers services (daily newsletter, entity super-homepages, event tracking); live 1.5 yrs, ~900 sources, ~16.6k entities, ~335k mentions. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 73
Venue: CIDR
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 8.6217909e-05
Overall Rank: 2,405 | 83.51%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Pedro DeRose (University of Wisconsin)
2. Warren Shen (University of Wisconsin)
3. Fei Chen (University of Wisconsin)
4. Yoonkyong Lee (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
5. Doug Burdick (University of Wisconsin)
6. AnHai Doan (University of Wisconsin)
7. Raghu Ramakrishnan (Yahoo)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{derose_cidr07,
        address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
        series = {{CIDR} '07},
        title = {{DBLife: A Community Information Management Platform for the Database Research Community}},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
        author = {DeRose, Pedro and Shen, Warren and Chen, Fei and Lee, Yoonkyong and Burdick, Doug and Doan, AnHai and Ramakrishnan, Raghu},
        year = {2007}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
969	Web-scale Data Integration: You can only afford to Pay As You Go	2007	CIDR	0.00012892148
1,848	Building Structured Web Community Portals: A Top-Down, Compositional, and Incremental Approach	2007	VLDB	9.6208418e-05
1,878	EASE: An Effective 3-in-1 Keyword Search Method for Unstructured, Semi-structured and Structured Data	2008	SIGMOD	9.5651166e-05
3,843	Efficiently Incorporating User Feedback into Information Extraction and Integration Programs	2009	SIGMOD	7.0791732e-05
5,100	Indexing Dataspaces	2007	SIGMOD	6.3646337e-05
5,609	Combining Keyword Search and Forms for Ad Hoc Querying of Databases	2009	SIGMOD	6.1514e-05
6,011	From Information to Knowledge: Harvesting Entities and Relationships from Web Sources	2010	PODS	6.0105397e-05
6,573	Web Data Management	2011	SIGMOD	5.8371536e-05
6,716	SigMatch: Fast and Scalable Multi-Pattern Matching	2010	VLDB	5.7958663e-05
7,019	Just-in-time Data Integration in Action	2010	VLDB	5.7247411e-05
8,752	WINACS: Construction and Analysis of Web-Based Computer Science Information Networks	2011	SIGMOD	5.3766157e-05
9,138	Community Systems: The World Online	2007	CIDR	5.3160527e-05
9,828	Optimizing Complex Extraction Programs over Evolving Text Data	2009	SIGMOD	5.2138468e-05
12,344	CHRONOS: Facilitating History Discovery by Linking Temporal Records	2012	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,162	Principles of Dataspace Systems	2006	PODS	0.00011866011
1,484	Data Quality and Data Cleaning: An Overview	2003	SIGMOD	0.00010631363
1,913	Information-Theoretic Tools for Mining Database Structure from Large Data Sets	2004	SIGMOD	9.4928569e-05
2,601	Personal Information Management with Semex	2005	SIGMOD	8.3549555e-05
3,672	Haystack: A Customizable General-Purpose Information Management Tool for End Users of Semistructured Data	2005	CIDR	7.2113698e-05

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