Intensional Associations Between Data and Metadata

Summary: Relational model augmented with queries-as-data to unify data, metadata, and their associations. A join mechanism that matches query results (not only atomic values) enables uniform querying across data and metadata; prototype demonstrates generality and compares with prior metadata proposals. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h2f91c8b0eb2abc04
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2007
Pagerank: 6.7518322e-05
Overall Rank: 4,183 | 71.89%
DOI: 10.1145/1247480.1247526

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Authors

1. Divesh Srivastava (AT&T)
2. Yannis Velegrakis (University of Trento)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{srivastava_sigmod07,
        title = {{Intensional Associations Between Data and Metadata}},
        author = {Srivastava, Divesh and Velegrakis, Yannis},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '07},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1247480.1247526},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1247480.1247526},
        year = {2007}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,597	Managing Structured Collections of Community Data	2011	CIDR	6.069136e-05
5,607	Ibis: A Provenance Manager for Multi-Layer Systems	2011	CIDR	6.0667072e-05
5,714	Believe It or Not: Adding Belief Annotations to Databases	2009	VLDB	6.0189313e-05
12,821	Tagging Stream Data for Rich Real-Time Services	2009	VLDB	4.9769913e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
126	Trio: A System for Integrated Management of Data, Accuracy, and Lineage	2005	CIDR	0.00030430114
525	An Annotation Management System for Relational Databases	2004	VLDB	0.00016889428
591	On Propagation of Deletions and Annotations Through Views	2002	PODS	0.00015882967
1,697	PIVOT and UNPIVOT: Optimization and Execution Strategies in an RDBMS	2004	VLDB	9.8499097e-05
4,268	Mapping Adaptation under Evolving Schemas	2003	VLDB	6.6932945e-05
7,340	Typed Query Languages for Databases Containing Queries	1998	PODS	5.5466494e-05
8,327	Evolvable View Environment (EVE): Non-Equivalent View Maintenance under Schema Changes	1999	SIGMOD	5.3520931e-05
8,328	A Metadata Approach to Resolving Semantic Conflicts	1991	VLDB	5.3520931e-05

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