Ski: A Semantics-Knowledgeable Interface
Summary: Ski provides a semantics-knowledgeable interface to databases, marrying expressive semantic models with broad graphical communication to users. It delivers a novel schema representation and manipulation approach, enabling powerful, usable data management via an integrated, visually oriented interface. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Roger King
- 2. Stephen Melville
Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,722 | OdeView: The Graphical Interface to Ode | 1990 | SIGMOD | 0.00010741116 |
| 5,134 | Pasta-3's Graphical Query Language: Direct Manipulation, Cooperative Queries, Full Expressive Power | 1989 | VLDB | 5.6678328e-05 |
| 6,109 | FaceKit: A Database Interface Design Toolkit | 1989 | VLDB | 5.2029199e-05 |
| 7,986 | Dynamic Derivation of Personalized Views | 1988 | VLDB | 4.6089395e-05 |
| 8,327 | Freeform: A User-Adaptable Form Management System | 1987 | VLDB | 4.5392079e-05 |
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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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 199 | Active Databases as a Paradigm for Enhanced Computing Environments | 1983 | VLDB | 0.00035058285 |
| 410 | Timber: A Sophisticated Relation Browser | 1982 | VLDB | 0.00023886475 |
| 719 | GUIDE: Graphical User Interface for Database Exploration | 1982 | VLDB | 0.0001754485 |
| 5,989 | The Multipurpose Presentation System | 1983 | VLDB | 5.2394615e-05 |
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Semantically Similar Papers
| Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1,420 | SchemaSQL - A Language for Interoperability in Relational Multi-database Systems | 1996 | VLDB | 0.00012068815 |
| 12,171 | The Schema-Independent Database UI: A Proposed Holy Grail and Some Suggestions | 2011 | CIDR | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 1,288 | Database Design Tools: An Expert System Approach | 1985 | VLDB | 0.00012779667 |
| 9,219 | SQuID: Semantic Similarity-Aware Query Intent Discovery | 2018 | SIGMOD | 4.3672182e-05 |
| 349 | The Semantic Data Model: A Modelling Mechanism for Data Base Applications | 1978 | SIGMOD | 0.00026431755 |
| 4,312 | SIM: A Database System Based on the Semantic Data Model | 1988 | SIGMOD | 6.2824978e-05 |
| 13,913 | SemanticAccess: Semantic Interface for Querying Databases | 2000 | VLDB | - |
| 719 | GUIDE: Graphical User Interface for Database Exploration | 1982 | VLDB | 0.0001754485 |
| 12,516 | A Semantic Information Integration Tool Suite | 2006 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 1,950 | ISIS: Interface for a Semantic Information System | 1985 | SIGMOD | 9.9912211e-05 |