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UW-CSE Colloq / 4-4-2000 / Suciu / AT&T Labs / Data Management on the Web

 

*NOTE* This lecture will be broadcast live via the Internet. See

http://www.cs.washington.edu/news/colloq.info.html for more information.

 

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Seattle, Washington 98195

 

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Box 352350

(206) 543-1695

 

COLLOQUIUM

 

SPEAKER:      Dan Suciu, AT&T Labs

 

TITLE:          Data Management on the Web

 

DATE:           Tuesday, April 4, 2000

 

TIME:           3:30 pm

 

PLACE:                   134 Sieg Hall

 

HOST:           Alon Levy

 

ABSTRACT:

 

Your browser can fetch any page on the Web.  But a business application

cannot retrieve data from another business unit, or from a corporate

partner.  Sad but true: when companies merge, they exchange data by fax.

Today, standards committees, software companies, and academic research

groups are working hard to enable easy data exchange on the Web, and the

first achievement is a universal data exchange format: XML.  In this talk

I will describe the new data management challenges raised by Web data,

explain why traditional data management techniques do not address these

challenges, and describe some of the solutions we proposed in AT&T Labs.

Specifically, I will describe: a query language (XML-QL), a tool for

exporting XML data from legacy databases (SilkRoute), the XML type

checking problem, and a compressor for XML data (XMill).

 

Refreshments to follow.

 

Email: talk-info@cs.washington.edu

Info: http://www.cs.washington.edu