Webdam Project: Foundations of Web Data Management
From the homepage:
The goal of the Webdam project is to develop a formal model for Web data management. This model will open new horizons for the development of the Web in a well-principled way, enhancing its functionality, performance, and reliability. Specifically, the goal is to develop a universally accepted formal framework for describing complex and flexible interacting Web applications featuring notably data exchange, sharing, integration, querying and updating. We also propose to develop formal foundations that will enable peers to concurrently reason about global data management activities, cooperate in solving specific tasks and support services with desired quality of service. Although the proposal addresses fundamental issues, its goal is to serve as the basis for future software development for Web data management.
Books from the project:
- Foundation of Database, Serge Abiteboul, Rick Hull, Victor Vianu, open access online edition
- Web Data Management and Distribution, Serge Abiteboul, Ioana Manolescu, Philippe Rigaux, Marie-Christine Rousset, Pierre Senellart, open access online edition
- Modeling, Querying and Mining Uncertain XML Data Evgeny Kharlamov and Pierre Senellart, , In A. Tagarelli, editor, XML Data Mining: Models, Methods, and Applications. IGI Global, 2011. open access online edition
I discovered this project via a link to “Web Data Management and Distribution” in Christophe Lalanne’s A bag of tweets / Dec 2011, that pointed to the PDF file, some 400 pages. I went looking for the HTML page with the link and discovered this project along with these titles.
There are a number of other publications associated with the project that you may find useful. The “Querying and Mining Uncertain XML” is only a chapter out of a larger publication by IGI Global. About what one expects from IGI Global. Cambrige Press published the title just proceeding this chapter and allows download for personal use of the entire book.
I think there is a lot to be learned from this project, even if it has not resulted in a universal framework for web applications that exchange data. I don’t think we are in any danger of universal frameworks on or off the web. And we are better for it.