A Dataspace Odyssey: The iMeMex Personal Dataspace Management System
Summary: iMeMex — first implemented Personal Dataspace Management System (PDSMS) that integrates heterogeneous personal data (files, email, bookmarks, media, calendars) across local and remote sources to enable cross-source navigation. Returns rich, contextual, best-effort query results. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Lukas Blunschi (ETH Zurich)
- 2. Jens-Peter Dittrich (ETH Zurich)
- 3. Olivier René Girard (ETH Zurich)
- 4. Shant Kirakos Karakashian (ETH Zurich)
- 5. Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles (ETH Zurich)
BibTeX Citation
@inproceedings{blunschi_cidr07,
address = {Amsterdam, Netherlands},
series = {{CIDR} '07},
title = {{A Dataspace Odyssey: The iMeMex Personal Dataspace Management System}},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the {Conference} on {Innovative} {Data} {Systems} {Research}},
author = {Blunschi, Lukas and Dittrich, Jens-Peter and Girard, Olivier René and Karakashian, Shant Kirakos and Salles, Marcos Antonio Vaz},
year = {2007}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 3 of 3 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 992 | Web-scale Data Integration: You can only afford to Pay As You Go | 2007 | CIDR | 0.00012641942 |
| 5,131 | iTrails: Pay-as-you-go Information Integration in Dataspaces | 2007 | VLDB | 6.2578858e-05 |
| 5,225 | Indexing Dataspaces | 2007 | SIGMOD | 6.2190653e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 9 of 9 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 Decomposition Storage Model | 1985 | SIGMOD | 0.00031916625 |
| 1,056 | Storage and Querying of E-Commerce Data | 2001 | VLDB | 0.00012243086 |
| 1,567 | Crossing the Structure Chasm | 2003 | CIDR | 0.00010208293 |
| 2,276 | A Platform for Personal Information Management and Integration | 2005 | CIDR | 8.7080472e-05 |
| 2,623 | The Rufus System: Information Organization for Semi-Structured Data | 1993 | VLDB | 8.2079572e-05 |
| 2,986 | A Database Striptease or How to Manage Your Personal Databases | 2003 | VLDB | 7.7772018e-05 |
| 3,755 | Haystack: A Customizable General-Purpose Information Management Tool for End Users of Semistructured Data | 2005 | CIDR | 7.0466897e-05 |
| 9,308 | iDM: A Unified and Versatile Data Model for Personal Dataspace Management | 2006 | VLDB | 5.196568e-05 |
| 13,038 | Bridging the Gap between OLAP and SQL | 2005 | VLDB | 4.9769913e-05 |
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