Timber: A Sophisticated Relation Browser

Summary: TIMBER: a sophisticated relation browser that unifies icons, maps, text, and fixed-format relations for multimodal data exploration. Describes DBMS extensions to support interactive visualization, including data modeling, indexing, and rendering. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 7534
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1982
Pagerank: 0.00023886475
Overall Rank: 410 | 97.16%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Michael Stonebraker
2. Joseph Kalash

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 14 of 14 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
61	DataGuides: Enabling Query Formulation and Optimization in Semistructured Databases	1997	VLDB	0.00064281097
199	Active Databases as a Paradigm for Enhanced Computing Environments	1983	VLDB	0.00035058285
1,507	Overview of Data Exploration Techniques	2015	SIGMOD	0.00011594294
1,537	PESTO: An Integrated Query/Browser for Object Databases	1996	VLDB	0.00011457125
1,654	Database Portals: A New Application Program Interface	1984	VLDB	0.00010984657
1,950	ISIS: Interface for a Semantic Information System	1985	SIGMOD	9.9912211e-05
2,674	"Fill-in-the-Form" Programming	1985	VLDB	8.3319392e-05
3,538	Remotely-Sensed Geophysical Databases: Experience and Implications for Generalized DBMSs	1983	SIGMOD	6.9929718e-05
3,878	Data Canopy: Accelerating Exploratory Statistical Analysis	2017	SIGMOD	6.6669911e-05
3,969	Lessons from a "Living In a Database" Graphical Query Interface	1984	SIGMOD	6.5761307e-05
4,848	Ski: A Semantics-Knowledgeable Interface	1984	VLDB	5.8724164e-05
5,989	The Multipurpose Presentation System	1983	VLDB	5.2394615e-05
13,037	NetBook - a data model to support knowledge exploration	1985	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
13,050	A Personal Data Manager	1984	VLDB	4.1905499e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
732	An Entity-based Database User Interface	1980	SIGMOD	0.00017434383
2,170	A Form Application Development System	1982	SIGMOD	9.384205e-05
2,888	The Cedar DBMS: A Preliminary Report	1981	SIGMOD	7.9639262e-05
3,202	Embedding Expert Knowledge and Hypothetical Data Bases into a Data Base System	1980	SIGMOD	7.3936043e-05

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