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ISCIS
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
PopulusLog: People information database
—Information about individuals on publicly available web sites stands as a valuable, yet unorganized, data source. Turning such an enormous data source into a “database” is h...
Ali Cakmak, Mustafa Kirac, Gultekin Özsoyoglu
IDEAS
2005
IEEE
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14 years 18 days ago
Automatically Maintaining Wrappers for Web Sources
A substantial subset of the web data follows some kind of underlying structure. Nevertheless, HTML does not contain any schema or semantic information about the data it represents...
Juan Raposo, Alberto Pan, Manuel Álvarez, J...
AGIS
2000
95views more  AGIS 2000»
13 years 6 months ago
Error Detection through Consistency Checking
Following a brief discussion on various aspects of data quality, possible methods are examined for the detection of errors in a spatial database. Using examples, we introduce the c...
Peng Gong, Lan Mu
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Acquisition of Vernacular Place Names from Web Sources
Vernacular place names are names that are commonly in use to refer to geographical places. For purposes of effective information retrieval, the spatial extent associated with these...
Florian A. Twaroch, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. ...
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 7 months ago
Triplify: light-weight linked data publication from relational databases
In this paper we present Triplify ? a simplistic but effective approach to publish Linked Data from relational databases. Triplify is based on mapping HTTP-URI requests onto relat...
Sören Auer, Sebastian Dietzold, Jens Lehmann,...