Structured Data  In Context Alon Halevy
My Point Structured and unstructured data are often mixed together On web, discussion forums, science, personal info We need to build systems to manage data in such contexts. I’ll give one example Methodology for addressing such issues: Eat our own dogfood.
Looking for data management problems in the rainforest in  Costa Rica
Cutting Off a Leg
I Created a Row in a Database!
They Want Easy Sharing and Update GUID ACG Guelph Pub Med Upload rules Download rules species Bar-code pubs
They Disagree on Data! GUID ACG Guelph Pub Med Upload rules Download rules Janzen is wrong species Bar-code pubs discussion
They Want it on the Web GUID ACG Guelph Pub Med species Bar-code pubs discussion This has a URL
The Challenge Build systems that enable communities to: Collaborate Discuss, disagree and find the ground truth See also many-eyes.com, swivel, … Are there common principles to scenarios involving structured-data in context? Yes, this is a dataspace
Eating our own Dogfood Let’s stop  talking  about users Let’s  be  users! Find sets of data our community cares about (the obvious ones…) Get first hand experience of how hard it is to manage, share, collaborate, discuss,… Come up with innovative solutions.

Claremont Report on Database Research: Research Directions (Alon Y. Halevy)

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    Structured Data In Context Alon Halevy
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    My Point Structuredand unstructured data are often mixed together On web, discussion forums, science, personal info We need to build systems to manage data in such contexts. I’ll give one example Methodology for addressing such issues: Eat our own dogfood.
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    Looking for datamanagement problems in the rainforest in Costa Rica
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    I Created aRow in a Database!
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    They Want EasySharing and Update GUID ACG Guelph Pub Med Upload rules Download rules species Bar-code pubs
  • 7.
    They Disagree onData! GUID ACG Guelph Pub Med Upload rules Download rules Janzen is wrong species Bar-code pubs discussion
  • 8.
    They Want iton the Web GUID ACG Guelph Pub Med species Bar-code pubs discussion This has a URL
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    The Challenge Buildsystems that enable communities to: Collaborate Discuss, disagree and find the ground truth See also many-eyes.com, swivel, … Are there common principles to scenarios involving structured-data in context? Yes, this is a dataspace
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    Eating our ownDogfood Let’s stop talking about users Let’s be users! Find sets of data our community cares about (the obvious ones…) Get first hand experience of how hard it is to manage, share, collaborate, discuss,… Come up with innovative solutions.