A Database Striptease or How to Manage Your Personal Databases

Summary: Frames personal data management as a distributed-database problem spanning phones, cars, cameras, PDAs, and ambient systems. Highlights fragmentation, synchronization, interoperability, device replacement, and cross-source discovery as core challenges. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 9240
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2003
Pagerank: 7.9553476e-05
Overall Rank: 2,925 | 79.94%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50100-2

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Martin Kersten (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica)
2. Gerhard Weikum (Saarland University)
3. Michael Franklin (University of California Berkeley)
4. Daniel Keim (University of Konstanz)
5. Alex Buchmann (Technical University of Darmstadt)
6. Surajit Chaudhuri (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@article{kersten_vldb03,
        title = {{A Database Striptease or How to Manage Your Personal Databases}},
        author = {Kersten, Martin and Weikum, Gerhard and Franklin, Michael and Keim, Daniel and Buchmann, Alex and Chaudhuri, Surajit},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '03},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50100-2},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012722442-8/50100-2},
        year = {2003}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,236	A Platform for Personal Information Management and Integration	2005	CIDR	8.8902064e-05
2,601	Personal Information Management with Semex	2005	SIGMOD	8.3549555e-05
6,541	A Dataspace Odyssey: The iMeMex Personal Dataspace Management System	2007	CIDR	5.8471331e-05
12,749	iMeMex: Escapes from the Personal Information Jungle	2005	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 0 of 0 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank

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