To Weave the Web

Summary: Proposes ARANEUS, a Web-inspired data model that encodes site structure as a database-style hypertext. Introduces ULIXES to build Web views and PENELOPE to derive hypertexts from relational views, enabling integrated, queryable Web data. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 8421
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1997
Pagerank: 9.2970809e-05
Overall Rank: 2,204 | 84.67%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 11 of 11 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
533	RoadRunner: Towards Automatic Data Extraction from Large Web Sites	2001	VLDB	0.00020757722
1,081	Catching the Boat with Strudel: Experiences with a Web-Site Management System	1998	SIGMOD	0.00014216794
1,936	QURSED: Querying and Reporting Semistructured Data	2002	SIGMOD	0.00010030476
2,224	The SphereSearch Engine for Unified Ranked Retrieval of Heterogeneous XML and Web Documents	2005	VLDB	9.251962e-05
2,932	Data-Driven One-to-One Web Site Generation for Data-Intensive Applications	1999	VLDB	7.8686995e-05
3,657	The ARANEUS Web-Base Management System	1998	SIGMOD	6.8713279e-05
3,681	Queries with Incomplete Answers over Semistructured Data	1999	PODS	6.8492288e-05
4,131	Optimization of Run-time Management of Data Intensive Web Sites	1999	VLDB	6.4252784e-05
8,976	A Layered Architecture for Querying Dynamic Web Content	1999	SIGMOD	4.4176964e-05
12,563	Database-Inspired Search	2005	VLDB	4.1945683e-05
13,887	HOMER: a Model-Based CASE Tool for Data-Intensive Web Sites	2000	SIGMOD	-

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 6 of 6 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
114	A Query Language and Optimization Techniques for Unstructured Data	1996	SIGMOD	0.00046339735
127	Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions	1996	VLDB	0.00044642203
271	Querying Object-Oriented Databases	1992	SIGMOD	0.00029452935
437	W3QS: A Query System for the World-Wide Web	1995	VLDB	0.00023240203
1,018	ILOG: Declarative Creation and Manipulation of Object Identifiers	1990	VLDB	0.00014627963
1,919	Cut and Paste	1997	PODS	0.00010094755

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5,467	Accessing Relational Databases from the World Wide Web	1996	SIGMOD	5.4904112e-05
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13,986	Is Web-site Management a Database Problem?	1998	VLDB	-
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4,766	Building and Customizing Data-Intensive Web Sites using Weave	2000	VLDB	5.9377055e-05
3,657	The ARANEUS Web-Base Management System	1998	SIGMOD	6.8713279e-05