Project Overview

Research Issues

Project Members

Demo of the System





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Project Overview

In this project, we were attempting to define and implement a wrapper software that can ``wrap'' a particular WWW information source (the DBLP database ) to support arbitrary SQL queries against a relational schema that we defined for that web site. Many authors in the data warehouse field assume relational database technology and increasingly also include WWW-based information sources into their work. So a need arises to wrap web-based information source in SQL.

Research Issues

Parsing SQL

Parsing SQL into a form usable in a simple Web form.

Sending Queries from Java to a Web form.

How to send HTTP-Requests to a Web server and receive the results.

Parsing HTML.

Parsing HTML-based information into data usable for a relational structure. This is a HTML-Version of the project report (also as ps).

Project Members

Advisor

Elke Rundensteiner

Graduate Students

Andreas Koeller

Daniel Stroe

Demo

The software is downloadable as a gnuzipped tar-file.