STRUDEL: a Web site management system
SIGMOD '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
The object database standard: ODMG 2.0
The object database standard: ODMG 2.0
A query language for a Web-site management system
ACM SIGMOD Record
World Wide Web Journal - Special issue on XML: principles, tools, and techniques
SERF: schema evolution through an extensible, re-usable and flexible framework
Proceedings of the seventh international conference on Information and knowledge management
SERFing the Web: web site management made easy
SIGMOD '00 Proceedings of the 2000 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Design and Maintenance of Data-Intensive Web Sites
EDBT '98 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Extending Database Technology: Advances in Database Technology
DOOD '97 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases
WebOQL: Restructuring Documents, Databases, and Webs
ICDE '98 Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Data Engineering
VLDB '97 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Incremental Updates for Materialized OQL Views
DOOD '97 Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Deductive and Object-Oriented Databases
Delaunay: A Visual Framework for Multimedia Presentation
VL '97 Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages (VL '97)
Aggregate Path Index for Incremental Web View Maintenance
WECWIS '00 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Advance Issues of E-Commerce and Web-Based Information Systems (WECWIS 2000)
Active Page Generation via Customizing XML for Data Beans in E-Commerce Applications
ISEC '01 Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Topics in Electronic Commerce
A data mining based method for web site maintenance
Intelligent Data Analysis
AWIC'03 Proceedings of the 1st international Atlantic web intelligence conference on Advances in web intelligence
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In our emerging digital paper-less society, massive amount of information is being maintained in on-line repositories and diverse web site representations of this information must be served over the Internet to different user groups. E-commerce and digital libraries are two representative sample applications with such needs. In this paper we present a database-centric approach called Re-Web that addresses this need for flexible web site generation, re-structuring, and maintenance. Re-Web is based on two key ideas. First, we exploit the web site structure by associating web semantics (XML equivalents) with the modeling constructs of the ODMG object model to aid the web site generation process. By capturing the logical structure of web views within the OODB system, we can efficiently maintain the web views using standard database techniques. Secondly, to ease the process of specification and construction of multiple customized web view sites, we also propose the notion of generic web view transformations that are encapsulated into re-usable templates. Thus desired new web view sites can be generated simply by applying the corresponding transformations on the underlying database to produce web view classes and then by applying the web semantics on the newly built view classes. The Re-Web system has been implemented using PSE by Object Design Inc. as object repository, ODMG as object model, OQL as transformation language, SERF as OODB evolution facility and IBM XML parser and LotusXSL processor to aid the web site generation. A case study using Re-Web is also presented to illustrate the working of the system. To the best of our knowledge, Re-Web is the first web site management system focusing on the issue of re-usable view generation templates at the content and not at the presentation style level of abstraction.