This is a nice talk by Kian Win Ong of UCSD called “Do It Yourself custom forms-driven workflow applications.” They’re looking at all the work people invest building special purpose content management systems that really offer users little more than “CRUD” (create, read, update delete) interactins for certain specialized kinds of content.
The basic approach is [...]
This is a CIDR presentation by Nodira Khoussainova of University of Washington arguing for a collaborative repository of complex SQL database queries. Sounds like they want co-scripter for SQL.
There’s a problem of hunting through all the queries to find the one you want. They want effective search and browsing, and also assistance in composing new [...]
A CIDR presentation by Ken Smith from Mitre on the use of the “match” operation that pairs properties of two different schema. It’s used to merge data from two different sources. He’s arguing that there are tons of uses of schema matching that precede the actually merging of data.
When you are trying to decide whether [...]