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: 8422
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1997
Pagerank: 9.2875159e-05
Overall Rank: 2,210 | 84.65%
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
534	RoadRunner: Towards Automatic Data Extraction from Large Web Sites	2001	VLDB	0.00020739037
1,080	Catching the Boat with Strudel: Experiences with a Web-Site Management System	1998	SIGMOD	0.00014204122
1,941	QURSED: Querying and Reporting Semistructured Data	2002	SIGMOD	0.00010018268
2,229	The SphereSearch Engine for Unified Ranked Retrieval of Heterogeneous XML and Web Documents	2005	VLDB	9.2422485e-05
2,935	Data-Driven One-to-One Web Site Generation for Data-Intensive Applications	1999	VLDB	7.8610678e-05
3,663	The ARANEUS Web-Base Management System	1998	SIGMOD	6.8647127e-05
3,683	Queries with Incomplete Answers over Semistructured Data	1999	PODS	6.84255e-05
4,132	Optimization of Run-time Management of Data Intensive Web Sites	1999	VLDB	6.4187496e-05
8,983	A Layered Architecture for Querying Dynamic Web Content	1999	SIGMOD	4.4134881e-05
12,572	Database-Inspired Search	2005	VLDB	4.1905499e-05
13,901	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
115	A Query Language and Optimization Techniques for Unstructured Data	1996	SIGMOD	0.00046301137
127	Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions	1996	VLDB	0.00044607231
272	Querying Object-Oriented Databases	1992	SIGMOD	0.0002942487
438	W3QS: A Query System for the World-Wide Web	1995	VLDB	0.00023220283
1,020	ILOG: Declarative Creation and Manipulation of Object Identifiers	1990	VLDB	0.00014614067
1,922	Cut and Paste	1997	PODS	0.00010084845

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5,478	Accessing Relational Databases from the World Wide Web	1996	SIGMOD	5.4850164e-05
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14,000	Is Web-site Management a Database Problem?	1998	VLDB	-
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3,663	The ARANEUS Web-Base Management System	1998	SIGMOD	6.8647127e-05