One table stores all: Enabling painless free-and-easy data publishing and sharing

In this paper, we present a free-and-easy data publishing and sharing system based on folksonomy. The system accepts data objects described with user-created metadata, called data units. The system supports flexible structure on the data units, and places no restrictions on the vocabulary used. We devise a generic table model for storing and representing the data units of various structures. We propose a framework for managing the data units and providing browsing, searching and querying services over them. We present our current approaches and discuss relevant research issues.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: CIDR
• Authors: Beng Chin Ooi, Bei Yu, Guoliang Li
• Keywords: Algorithms, CIDR 2007, Data Objects, Data Units, Free-and-easy Data Publishing