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WIND: A warehouse for internet data

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Advances in Databases (BNCOD 1997)

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The increasing amount of information available in the web demands sophisticated querying methods and knowledge discovery techniques. In this study, we introduce our architectural framework WIND for a data warehouse over a domain-specific thematic section of the Internet. The aim of WIND is to provide a partially materialized structured view of the underlying information sources, on which database querying can be applied and mining techniques can be developed. WIND loads web documents into several complementary local repositories like OODBMSs and text retrieval systems. This allows for a combination of attribute and content-oriented query processing. Special interest is paid to domain-specific document formats. To support conversion between (semi-)structured documents and database objects, we consider a technique for the generation of format converters based on the notion of object-grammars.

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  1. Institut für Informatik, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

    Lukas C. Faulstich

  2. Institut für Wirtschaftsinformatik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

    Myra Spiliopoulou

  3. Institut für Informationssysteme, Medizinische Universität zu Lübeck, Germany

    Volker Linnemann

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  1. Lukas C. Faulstich
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Carol Small Paul Douglas Roger Johnson Peter King Nigel Martin

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Faulstich, L.C., Spiliopoulou, M., Linnemann, V. (1997). WIND: A warehouse for internet data. In: Small, C., Douglas, P., Johnson, R., King, P., Martin, N. (eds) Advances in Databases. BNCOD 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1271. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-63263-8_20

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