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)

Paper ID: h44507cb30f2cdf76
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1984
Pagerank: 6.204668e-05
Overall Rank: 5,262 | 64.63%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Roger King (University of Colorado)
2. Stephen Melville (University of Colorado)

BibTeX Citation

@article{king_vldb84,
        title = {{Ski: A Semantics-Knowledgeable Interface}},
        author = {King, Roger and Melville, Stephen},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '84},
        volume = {10},
        pages = {30--41},
        year = {1984}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
2,435	OdeView: The Graphical Interface to Ode	1990	SIGMOD	8.4721716e-05
6,094	Pasta-3's Graphical Query Language: Direct Manipulation, Cooperative Queries, Full Expressive Power	1989	VLDB	5.888938e-05
6,671	FaceKit: A Database Interface Design Toolkit	1989	VLDB	5.7141663e-05
8,468	Dynamic Derivation of Personalized Views	1988	VLDB	5.3350162e-05
8,732	Freeform: A User-Adaptable Form Management System	1987	VLDB	5.2905577e-05

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
610	Active Databases as a Paradigm for Enhanced Computing Environments	1983	VLDB	0.0001558453
720	TIMBER: A Sophisticated Relation Browser	1982	VLDB	0.00014528145
1,452	GUIDE: Graphical User Interface for Database Exploration	1982	VLDB	0.00010610505
6,476	The Multipurpose Presentation System	1983	VLDB	5.7730346e-05

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