Community Information Management

We introduce Cimple, a joint project between the University of Illinois and the University of Wisconsin. Cimple aims to develop a software platform that can be rapidly deployed and customized to manage data-rich online communities. We first describe the envisioned working of such a software platform and our prototype, DBLife, which is a community portal being developed for the database research community. We then describe the technical challenges in Cimple and our solution approach. Finally, we discuss managing uncertainty and provenance, a crucial task in making our software platform practical.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2006
• Where: DEBU
• Authors: AnHai Doan, Raghu Ramakrishnan, Fei Chen 0002, Pedro DeRose, Yoonkyong Lee, Robert McCann, Mayssam Sayyadian, Warren Shen
• Keywords: Data-rich Online Communities, Database Research Community, DEBU 2006, Software Platform