Curated Databases

Summary: Curated databases: human-crafted reference datasets prioritizing high-quality, organized data with extensive annotations and cross-database reuse. Highlights DB challenges—annotation, provenance, citation, and schema evolution from semi-structured origins—and calls for formal process models to guide theory and systems. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: hc8d761a1f97a63d2
Venue: PODS
Year: 2008
Pagerank: 0.00012117197
Overall Rank: 1,079 | 92.77%
DOI: 10.1145/1376916.1376918

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Peter Buneman (University of Edinburgh)
2. James Cheney (University of Edinburgh)
3. Wang-Chiew Tan (University of California Santa Cruz)
4. Stijn Vansummeren (Hasselt University; Transnational University of Limburg)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{buneman_pods08,
        address = {New York, NY, USA},
        series = {{PODS} '08},
        title = {{Curated Databases}},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1376916.1376918},
        doi = {10.1145/1376916.1376918},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} Symposium on {Principles} of {Database} {Systems}},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        author = {Buneman, Peter and Cheney, James and Tan, Wang-Chiew and Vansummeren, Stijn},
        year = {2008}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 17 of 17 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
502	Dependencies Revisited for Improving Data Quality	2008	PODS	0.00017239652
520	Query by Output	2009	SIGMOD	0.00016910379
877	Integrating Conflicting Data: The Role of Source Dependence	2009	VLDB	0.00013267412
2,200	Data Integration: After the Teenage Years	2017	PODS	8.8631564e-05
2,234	Computing the Shapley Value of Facts in Query Answering	2022	SIGMOD	8.7839031e-05
2,459	Tracing Data Errors with View-Conditioned Causality	2011	SIGMOD	8.4137923e-05
2,492	Query-Oriented Data Cleaning with Oracles	2015	SIGMOD	8.3722864e-05
3,913	Automatic Enforcement of Data Use Policies with DataLawyer	2015	SIGMOD	6.9088542e-05
5,305	Determining the Currency of Data	2011	PODS	6.1757007e-05
5,623	Annotated XML: Queries and Provenance	2008	PODS	6.045738e-05
6,313	Classification of Annotation Semirings over Query Containment	2012	PODS	5.7970566e-05
6,518	QOCO: A Query Oriented Data Cleaning System with Oracles	2015	VLDB	5.741664e-05
7,409	Sailing the Information Ocean with Awareness of Currents: Discovery and Application of Source Dependence	2009	CIDR	5.5168332e-05
7,865	SOLOMON: Seeking the Truth Via Copying Detection	2010	VLDB	5.4217315e-05
12,463	Proactive Annotation Management in Relational Databases	2015	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
12,722	DBWiki: A Structured Wiki for Curated Data and Collaborative Data Management	2011	SIGMOD	4.9605343e-05
12,878	PDiffView: Viewing the Difference in Provenance of Workflow Results	2009	VLDB	4.9605343e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 18 of 18 cited papers.

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

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
17	Provenance Semirings	2007	PODS	0.00059660827
502	Dependencies Revisited for Improving Data Quality	2008	PODS	0.00017239652
529	An Annotation Management System for Relational Databases	2004	VLDB	0.00016834919
590	Management of Probabilistic Data: Foundations and Challenges	2007	PODS	0.00015876538
593	On Propagation of Deletions and Annotations Through Views	2002	PODS	0.00015833398
715	Archiving Scientific Data	2002	SIGMOD	0.00014558752
846	Debugging Schema Mappings with Routes	2006	VLDB	0.00013486084
1,196	Object Fusion in Mediator Systems	1996	VLDB	0.00011548322
1,210	Immortal DB: Transaction Time Support for SQL Server	2005	SIGMOD	0.00011495323
1,593	DBNotes: A Post-It System for Relational Databases based on Provenance	2005	SIGMOD	0.00010105032
2,106	A Polygen Model for Heterogeneous Database Systems: The Source Tagging Perspective	1990	VLDB	9.0235781e-05
2,186	Provenance Management in Curated Databases	2006	SIGMOD	8.8910881e-05
2,800	Inferring XML Schema Definitions from XML Data	2007	VLDB	7.9784397e-05
3,260	Inference of Concise DTDs from XML Data	2006	VLDB	7.4717337e-05
5,162	Temporal Slicing in the Evaluation of XML Queries	2003	VLDB	6.2350805e-05
5,623	Annotated XML: Queries and Provenance	2008	PODS	6.045738e-05
6,519	Local Hoare Reasoning about DOM	2008	PODS	5.7410027e-05
8,811	XArch: Archiving Scientific and Reference Data	2008	SIGMOD	5.2573152e-05

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