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The following publications are available:

2009

Lyon, L (June 2009). "C21st Scholarship: Data as an Agent for Change" [external PPT, 13.9MB] (slides from presentation given at E-Publishing Conference 2009, 25-26 June 2009, University College London).
Lyon, L (June 2009). "Data Informatics Top Ten (for Libraries)" [external PPT, 4.9MB] (slides from presentation given at i-expo 2009, 17-18 June 2009, Paris, France).
Lyon, L (June 2009). "Libraries and Team Science: Collaborative Work in a Multi-scale, Multi-disciplinary and Multi-skilled Research Environment" [external PPT, 7.6MB] (slides from presentation given at ICSTI 2009, 9-10 June 2009, Ottawa, Canada). A video of her presentation [external WMV, 1.3GB] is also available.
"DRAMBORA Interactive: User Guide" [PDF, 2.05MB] (a user guide for the freely-available online version of our DRAMBORA toolkit that makes the self-auditing process easier and more efficient for repository managers).
"What the Digital Curation Centre can do for you" [PDF, 5.85MB] (a brochure on what we, the DCC, can do for you).

2008

Low, B.; Cassidy, K.; Fergusson, D.; Atkinson, M.; Vander Meer, E.; and McGeever, M. (December 2008). "Distributed Computing Education, Part 5: Coming to Terms with Intellectual Property Rights" [external PDF, 117KB]. Published in IEEE Distributed Systems Online.
Innocenti, P.; Mchugh, A.; Ross, S. (2008). "Tackling the risk challenge: DRAMBORA (Digital Repository Audit Method Based on Risk Assessment)", E-Challenge 2008, Stockholm, Sweden, published in Collaboration and the Knowledge Economy: Issues, Applications, Case Studies, Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham (Eds), IOS Press, 2008 Amsterdam, ISBN 978-1-58603-924-0.
McHugh, A.; Ross, S.; Innocenti, P.; Ruusalepp, R.; Hofman, H. (December 2008). "Two Words, Two Challenges: Distinguishing Audit and Certification of Digital Archives", DLM Forum, Toulouse, France, 10-12 December 2008.
Innocenti, P.; McHugh, A.; Ross, S.; Ruusalepp, R.; Hofman, H. (December 2008). "DRAMBORA Interactive. An introduction", Digital Library meeting of the National Diet Library in Kyoto, Japan, 2 December 2008.
Innocenti, P.; McHugh, A.; Ross, S.; Ruusalepp, R.; Hofman, H. "Long Term Preservation of Japanese Digital Repositories with DRAMBORA", presented at HUSCAP repository meeting, University of Hokkaido, Japan, 25 November 2008; Digital Repository Foundation workshop, Library Fair 2008, Yohokama, Japan, 27 November 2008; Digital Archive meeting of the National Archives of Japan in Tokyo, Japan, 28 November 2008; Digital Library meeting of the National Diet Library in Kyoto, Japan, 2 December 2008.
Ross, S.; Innocenti, P.; McHugh, A.; Ruusalepp, R.; Hofman, H. (November 2008). "An Introduction to the DRAMBORA toolkit and its Underlying Principles", presentation to the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium, 25 November 2008.
Innocenti, P.; Mchugh, A.; Ross, S.; Ruusalepp, R. (2008). "Assessing Long Term Preservation of Audiovisual Content with DRAMBORA", in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Automated Solutions for Cross Media Content and Multi-channel Distribution, edited by P. Nesi, K. Ng, J. Delgado, 17-19 November 2008, Villa Finaly, Florence, Italy, pp. 60-68, ISBN 978-88-8453-810-9.
Ruusalepp, R. (November 2008). "Assessing trust in digital repositories", Nordic Archives IT Meeting, 13-14 November, 2008.
Ruusalepp, R. Innocenti, P.; Ross, S.; Hofman, H. (November 2008). "DRAMBORA Auditors Training Course", National Library of the Czech Republic, Prague, 13-17 November 2008.
Ruusalepp, R; Pryor, G. (November 2008). "Infrastructure Planning and Data Curation" [PDF, 2.41MB] (a comparative study of international approaches to enabling the sharing of research data).
Whyte, A. (November 2008). "Curating Brain Images in a Psychiatric Research Group" [PDF, 1.69MB] (A SCARP case study involving the Neuroimaging Group in University of Edinburgh's Division of Psychiatry. A 5-page Summary and Recommendations [PDF, 170KB] from the study is available. The study combined an assessment of risks to the long-term value of the research group's datasets with field work to understand current data practices in their context. An Annex titled Neuroimaging Data Landscapes [PDF, 1.23MB] provides background on the development of imaging, the nature of the data collected for neuroimaging studies in psychiatry, data repository and curation resources available, and legal and ethical constraints on data exchange).
Rusbridge, A; Ross, S. (2008). "Establishing a community-based approach to electronic journal archiving: the UK LOCKSS Pilot Programme" [external]
Hofman, H. (October 2008). "DRAMBORA Interactive", WePreserve Conference, Nice, France, 30 October 2008.
McHugh, A.; Innocenti, P.; Ross, S. (October 2008). "Assessing Risks to Digital Cultural Heritage with DRAMBORA", Media in Motion Symposium, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 29 October 2008.
Innocenti, P.; McHugh, A.; Ross, S. (October 2008). "Tackling the risk challenge: DRAMBORA", E-Challenges Conference 2008, Stockholm, Sweden, 22-24 October 2008.
Jones, S. (October 2008). "Tools for managing research data - DAF and DRAMBORA", Institutional & National Services for Research Data Management workshop, Oxford, UK, 20 October 2008.
Innocenti, P. October 2008). "Self audit and self-certification principles using DRAMBORA toolkit", DPE/Planets/CASPAR/nestor Joint Training Event, National Library of the Czech Republic, Prague, 16 October 2008.
McHugh, A. (October 2008). "Demonstration of the DRAMBORA Online Tool", DAF and DRAMBORA Interactive Launch Event, British Academy, London, UK, 1 October 2008
Ruusalepp, R. (October 2008). "Lessons learned Assessing Repositories with DRAMBORA", DAF and DRAMBORA Interactive Launch Event, British Academy, London, UK, 1 October 2008.
Innocenti, P. (October 2008). "An Introduction to Repository Assessment and DRAMBORA", DAF and DRAMBORA Interactive Launch Event, British Academy, London, UK, 1 October 2008.
Lyon, L. (October 2008). "Transition or Transform? Repositioning the Library for the Petabyte Era" [external PPT, 10.1MB] (slides from presentation given at ARL/CNI Forum, Washington DC, USA).
McHugh, A.; Innocenti, P.; Ross, S. (September 2008). "Assessing risks to digital cultural heritage with DRAMBORA", International Documentation Committee of the International Council of Museums (CIDOC) 2008, Athens, Greece, 15-18 September 2008.
Innocenti, P.; McHugh, A.; Ross, S.; Ruusalepp, R.; Hofman, H. (September 2008). "Auditing digital archival repositories: risk assessment with DRAMBORA, Adopting and Adapting." 25th International Convention Records Management Association of Australasia, 7-10 September 2008, Sidney, Australia.
Ross, S.; McHugh, A.; Innocenti, P.; Ruusalepp, R. (August 2008). "Investigation of the potential application of the DRAMBORA toolkit in the context of digital libraries to support the assessment of the repository aspects of digital libraries", Glasgow: DELOS NoE, August 2008, ISBN: 2-912335-41-8.
Kim, Y. (August 2008). "Methodology for Designing and Evaluating Curation and Preservation Experiments" [PDF, 600KB] (a workflow framework for designing experiments to validate the effectiveness of curation and preservation strategies).
Lyon, L (June 2008). "Dealing with Data: One Year On" [external PPT, 8.09MB] (slides from presentation given at Max Planck e-Science Seminar, Göttingen).
McGinley, M. (June 2008). "Legal Considerations for Data Sharing" [PPT, 325KB] (slides from presentation given at DCC/Edinburgh e-Science Collaborative Workshop, Edinburgh).
Lyon, L (June 2008). "Virtual Research Environments: Into the Future" [external PPT, 3.42MB] (slides from presentation given at Enabling Innovation Conference, Birmingham).
Lyon, L; Coles, S. (April 2008). "The eCrystals Federation" [external PPT, 5.21MB] (slides from presentation given at Open Repositories 2008, University of Southampton).
Lyon, L; Coles, S. (March 2008). "eCrystals Federation: Open Repositories for Data-driven Science" [external PPT, 2.45MB] (slides from presentation given at Chemical Informatics Workshop, University of Manchester).
Lyon, L (February 2008). "UK Perspectives on the Curation and Preservation of Scientific Data" [external PPT, 2.79MB] (slides from presentation given at AAAS Annual Meeting, Boston, USA).
Pennock, M (January 2008). "JISC Programme Synthesis Study: Supporting Digital Preservation & Asset Management in Institutions" [PDF, 817KB] (a review of the 4-04 programme on digital preservation and asset management in institutions for the JISC Information Environment).
Lyon, L; Coles, S (January 2008). "eCrystals Federation: Open Repositories for global Open Science" [external PPT, 1.54MB] (slides from presentation given at DRIVER Summit, Göttingen, Germany).

2007

Lyon, L; Coles, S; Patel, M (December 2007). "eCrystals Federation: Open Repositories for Open Science" [external PPT, 3.9MB] (slides from presentation given at CNI Taskforce Meeting, Washington DC, USA).
Lyon, L (November 2007). "From Audience to Avatar? Transformational Technologies for the Cultural Sector" [external PPT, 6.97MB] (slides from presentation given at MLA NE ICT Conference, University of Teesside).
Lyon, L (November 2007). "Open Science and the Research Library: Roles, Challenges and Opportunities?" [external PPT, 6.67MB] (slides from presentation given at ARL Directors' Meeting, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA).
Lyon, L (October 2007). "Curating the Scientific Record: The Challenges Ahead" [external PPT, 3.6MB] (slides from presentation given at Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) Data Management Workshop).
Patel, M; Coles, S (September 2007). "A study of Curation and Preservation Issues in the eCrystals Data Repository and Proposed Federation" [external PDF, 510KB] (a paper published as part of work undertaken by the DCC in Phase 3 of the eBank UK Project).
Pennock, M (June 2007). "Digital Resources: To Infinity and Beyond? Curating and Preserving Digital Library Resources" [external PPT, 3.53MB] (slides from presentation given at British & Irish Association of Law Libraries (BIALL) Annual Conference, Sheffield).
Lyon, L (June 2007). "Dealing with Data: Roles, Rights, Responsibilities & Relationships " [external PPT, 2.17MB] (slides from presentation given at JISC Digital Repositories Conference, Manchester).
Lyon, L (June 2007). "Dealing with Data: Roles, Rights, Responsibilities & Relationships in the European Context " [external PPT, 3.76MB] (slides from presentation given at ECRI 2007).
Pennock, M (May 2007). "Scaling the E-Mail Mountain: a record manager's guide to e-mail curation" [external PPT, 1.57MB] (slides from presentation given at Records Management Society (RMS) Annual Conference, Brighton).
Pennock, M; Lewis, S (May 2007). "Institutional Repositories: The New University Challenge" [external PDF, 121KB] (a paper published in ALISS Quarterly [external] ISSN 1747-9258).
Pennock, M (May 2007). "Digital Curation: A Life-cycle Approach to Managing and Preserving Usable Digital Information" [external PDF, 152KB] (a paper published in Library & Archives Journal, Ten Alps Publishing, Issue 1 2007.
Day, M; Pennock, M; Allinson, J (April 2007). "Cooperation for Digital Preservation and Curation: Collaboration for collection development in institutional repository networks" (a paper presented at DigCCurr Conference, Chapel Hill, USA). Download paper [external PDF, 119KB]. Download presentation [external PPT, 577KB].
McGinley, M (April 2007). "Old Dogs and New Tricks: Law and Digital Curation" (a paper presented at BILETA 2007 [external], 16–17 April 2007, Hertfordshire). Download paper [DOC, 113KB]. Download presentation [PPT, 475KB].
Lyon, L (March 2007). "Changing Roles, Responsibilities and Relationships" [external PPT, 2.73MB] (slides from presentation given at JISC Conference).
Pennock, M (March 2007). "Digital Preservation & Asset Management Programme Synthesis" [external PPT, 1.5MB] (slides from presentation given at JISC Conference 2007 [external], 13 March 2007, Birmingham).
Pennock, M (March 2007). "E-mail Curation and Freedom of Information" [external PPT, 9.8MB] (slides from presentation given at the National FoI Group Meeting, 7 March 2007, Birmingham).
Waelde, C; McGinley, M (March 2007). "Designing a licensing strategy for sharing and re-use of geospatial data in the academic sector" [PDF, 735KB] (a report that considers the acquisition, manipulation and use of geospatial data within the research and education sector in the UK and analyses which intellectual property rights might reside in a database containing geospatial data).
McGinley, M (January 2007). "The Report of the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property - A Summary for a Digital Curation Audience" (relating to the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property [external] which was published on 6 December 2006). Download summary [PDF, 30KB].
Pennock, M (January 2006). "Digital Preservation (Eds. Deegan, M., & Tanner, S.)" [external] (a book review published in the January 2007 issue of Ariadne [external], ISSN 1361-3200).

2006

Pennock, M (December 2006). "Institutional Repositories" [external PPT, 568KB] (slides from presentation given at DCC and the University of Liverpool Library Information Day Institutional Repositories, 4 December 2006, Liverpool).
Pennock, M (December 2006). "Digital Curation and the Management of Digital Library Cultural Heritage Resources" [external PDF, 171KB] (a paper published in Local Studies Librarian, Vol 25 (2) ISSN 0263-0273).
Pennock, M (November 2006). "Digital Preservation" [external PDF, 60KB] (a JISC briefing paper).
Pennock, M (November 2006). "E-mail Curation: Practical Approaches for Long-term Preservation and Access" [external] (a workshop report published in the International Journal of Digital Curation (IJDC) [external], Vol 1(1), ISSN 1746-8256).
Pennock, M (December 2006). "Digital Curation: A life-cycle approach to managing and preserving digital information" [external PPT, 139KB] (slides from presentation given at the Edinburgh University MIS Seminar Digital Curation and Preservation [external], 2 October 2006, Edinburgh).
McGinley, M (October 2006). "Intellectual Property Rights and their Impact on Digital Preservation and Access" (a presentation given at Digital rights and asset management: access and preservation forum [external], 19 October 2006, Glasgow). Download presentation [PPT, 287KB]. Download presentation [PDF, 242KB].
Higgins, S; Semple, N (October 2006). "OAIS Five-year review: Recommendations for update — Compiled on behalf of members of The Digital Curation Centre and The Digital Preservation Coalition". These recommendations were prepared during a joint workshop with members of both the Digital Curation Centre and the Digital Preservation Coalition in Edinburgh on 13 October 2006. The workshop was organised in response to a call for comments [external] on the OAIS Reference Model: ISO 14721: 2003, which in compliance with the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS) procedures must be reviewed every 5 years. Download recommendations [PDF, 211KB].
Pennock, M (October 2006). "Managing Digital Cultural Heritage Resources: From Creation to Curation" [external PDF, 133KB] (a paper published in Information Scotland, The Journal of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals in Scotland, Vol 4(5), ISSN 1743-5471).
Pennock, M (October 2006). "Managing and Preserving E-mails" [external PDF, 148KB] (a paper published in Records Management Society Bulletin, Issue 134).
Patel, M; Pennock, M; Tonkin, E (October 2006). "Digital Applications for Cultural and Heritage Institutions (Ed. J. Hemsley et al)" [external PDF, 73KB] (a book review published in Program: Electronic Library and Information Systems Journal, Vol 40 Issue 4, ISSN 0033-0337).
McHugh, A; Ross, S (October 2006). "Preservation Pressure Points: Evaluating Diverse Evidence for Risk Management" (a paper presented at iPRES 2006 [external], 8–10 October 2006, New York, USA). Download presentation [PDF, 46KB].
Pennock, M (September 2006). "Archival Perspectives on 'Web Archiving'" [external PPT, 183KB] (slides from presentation given at the ARK Group workshop Archiving the Web, 28 September 2006, London).
Pennock, M (September 2006). "From Creation to Curation: Managing Digital Cultural Heritage Resources" [external PPT, 360KB] (slides from presentation given at the CILIPs Branch/Group Day Google or Bust: Challenging the Profession, 27 September 2006, Dundee).
Pennock, M (September 2006). "Collaboration as the keystone for successful management of digital records" [external PDF, 2.2MB] (a paper presented at ICA/SUV SEMINAR 2006 [external], 13–20 September 2006, Reykjavík, Iceland). Download short paper [PDF, 111KB]. Download presentation [PPT, 2.24MB].
McGinley, M (September 2006). "A Lawyer's-Eye View of the UK's Digital Curation Centre" (a paper presented at VI Computer Law World Conference [external], 4–8 September 2006, Edinburgh). Download presentation [PPT, 140KB].
Rice, R; Semple, N (July 2006). "JISC/CNI Conference, York 2006" [external] (a report published in the July 2006 issue of Ariadne [external] on the JISC/CNI Conference, 6–7 July 2006, York.
Patel, M; Pennock, M (July 2006). "Digital Preservation Coalition Forum on Web Archiving" [external] (a report published in the July 2006 issue of Ariadne [external] on the Digital Preservation Coalition's second Web Archiving Forum, 12 June 2006, London).
Day, M; Pennock, M; Richmond, L (June 2006). "Archiving the Web: What can Institutions learn from National and International Web Archiving Initiatives" [external PPT, 3708KB] (slides from presentation given at the Institutional Web Managers Workshop Quality Matters, 14–16 June 2006, Bath).
Pennock, M (June 2006). "The Digital Curation Centre and the Representation Information Registry" [external PPT, 219KB] (slides from presentation given at CETIS MDR SIG, 28 June 2006, Bath).
Pennock, M (May 2006). "Digital Curation as a Framework for Managing and Preserving E-mail Records" [external PPT, 228KB] (slides from presentation given at the UKOLN Open Forum, 28 June 2006, Bath).
Kelly, B; Pennock, M (May 2006). "Archiving Web Site Resources: A Records Management View" [PDF, 164KB] (a paper presented at WWW 2006 [external], 15th International World Wide Web Conference, 23–26 May 2006, Edinburgh). Download poster [PDF, 133KB].
Pennock, M (May 2006). "Digital Archiving" [external PPT, 160KB] (slides from presentation given at the East Anglian Online User Group (EAOLUG) meeting Digital Archiving & Records Management, 23 May 2006, Cambridge).
McGinley, M (April 2006). "Submission to the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property on behalf of the Digital Curation Centre." Download response [PDF, 186KB]. This submission was made in response to the Call for Evidence made by the Gowers Review. Download the Call for Evidence [external PDF, 135KB].
Note: You might also like to read the letter [PDF, 143KB] written by IP academics and sent to Mr Gowers that endorses the need for IP to be kept under constant review but questions whether this could be properly done within the time period and scope of the current review.
Pennock, M (April 2006). "E-mails as Records: From Creation to Curation" [external PPT, 163KB] (slides from presentation given at the DCC Workshop E-mail Curation: Practical Approaches for Long-Term Preservation, 24–25 April 2006, Newcastle-upon-Tyne).
Allinson, J; Guy, M; Pennock, M (April 2006). "The Rustle of Digital Curation: The JISC Annual Conference" [external] (a conference report published in the April 2006 issue of Ariadne [external] on the JISC Annual Conference, 14 March 2006, Birmingham).
Pennock, M (March 2006). "Digital Archiving or Digital Archaeology? Dealing with Digital Records" [external PPT, 212KB] (slides from presentation given at the Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies (LUCAS) workshop Preserving Digital Archives, 22 March 2006, Liverpool).
Pennock, M (February 2006). "Joint Workshop on Future-Proofing Web Sites" [external] (a workshop report published in the February 2006 issue of Ariadne [external] on FPW 2006, Joint DCC and Wellcome Library Workshop on Future-Proofing Institutional Web Sites, 19–20 January 2006, London).

2005

McHugh, A; Ross, S (October 2005). "Audit and Certification of Digital Repositories: Creating a Mandate for the Digital Curation Centre (DCC)" [external] (an article published in the 15 October 2005 issue of RLG DigiNews [external], Volume 9, Number 5 ISSN 1093-5371).
Rice, R (July, 2005). "The UK Digital Curation Centre: a working resource for librarians" [PDF, 38KB] ALISS Quarterly (formerly ASSIGNation) [external], 11–14 (22:4).
Atkinson, M; Buneman, P; Burnhill, P; Giaretta, D; Lyon, L; Ross, S; Rusbridge, C (June 2005). "The Digital Curation Centre: A Vision for Digital Curation" [PDF, 325KB] (a paper presented at From Local to Global: Data Interoperability — Challenges and Technologies, Mass Storage and Systems Technology Committee of the IEEE Computer Society, 20–24 June 2005, Sardinia, Italy).
Buneman, B; Lyon, L; Rusbridge, C (May 2005). "Comments from the Digital Curation Centre on Long-Lived Digital Data Collections: Enabling Research and Education in the 21st Century (a draft report of the National Science Board)" [PDF, 86KB].
Buneman, B; Bose, R; Ecklund, D (May 2005). "Annotation in Scientific Data: a Scoping Report" [PDF, 58KB] (a report that describes how and why annotation is used, presents the generic issues in annotation, and indicates directions for relevant research, especially in the areas of databases and digital curation).
Waelde, C; McGinley, M (March 2005). "Public Domain; Public Interest; Public Funding: Focusing on the 'three Ps' in Scientific Research" [external] (a paper published in the March 2005 issue of SCRIPT-ed [external], a Journal of Law and Technology, that examines some of the difficulties faced by scientists engaged in scientific research who may have problems working within the constraints of current copyright and database legislation).

2004

Carpenter, L (November 2004). "Digital Curation Centre User Requirements Analysis" [PPT, 536KB] (a study of the people who are interested in preserving data and their needs). Download Taxonomy of digital curation users [PDF, 239KB] (part of the requirements analysis). View interviews.
Giaretta, D; Rankin, S; Rusbridge, A (September 2004). "Information Labels"* (an XML schema for a DCC representational information label).
Patel, M (July 2004). "Scoping Study for a DCC Metadata Standards Registry" [PDF, 154KB] (a study that presents our motivation behind creating a Metadata Standards Registry, a functional and architectural design, proposed content and list of issues).
Giaretta, D; Rankin, S (May 2004). "DCC Approach to Digital Curation"* (a white paper describing our approach to digital curation).

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Research Papers

The following academic research papers are available:

2008

Loreto Bravo, Wenfei Fan, Floris Geerts, and Shuai Ma. "Increasing Expressivity of Conditional Functional Dependencies without Extra Charge of Complexity". The 24th International Conference on Database Engineering (ICDE), 2008.
Wenfei Fan and Philip Bohannon. "Information Preserving XML Schema Embedding". ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), to appear.

2007

James Cheney, A Ahmed, and U. A. Acar. "Provenance as Dependency Analysis". The Databases Programming Languages Conference (DBPL), 2007.
Loreto Bravo, James Cheney, and Irini Fundulaki. "Repairing Inconsistent XML Write-Access Control Policies". The Databases Programming Languages Conference (DBPL), 2007.
Leopoldo Bertossi and Loreto Bravo. "The Semantics of Consistency and Trust in Peer Data Exchange Systems". The 14th International Conference on Logic for Programming Artificial Intelligence and Reasoning (LPAR), 2007.
Wenfei Fan. "XML Publishing: Bridging Theory and Practice". 11th International Symposium on Database Programming Languages (DBPL), Vienna, Austria, 2007 (invited talk).
Yu Zhang, Wenfei Fan, et al. "Extending Online Travel Agency with Adaptive Reservations". 15th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS), Vilamoura, Algarve, Portugal, 2007.
James Cheney and Alberto Momigliano. "Mechanized Metatheory Model-Checking". In Proceedings of the 9th ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on Principles and Practice of Declarative Programming, Wroclaw, Poland, 2007, pp.75-86. Download paper [external PDF, 279KB].
Michael Benedikt, Leonid Libkin, and Frank Neven. "Logical Definability and Query Languages Over Ranked and Unranked Trees". In ACM Transactions on Computational Logic, vol. 8, iss. 2, April 2007. Download paper [external PDF, 602KB].
Wenfei Fan, Floris Geerts, and Frank Neven. "Expressiveness and Complexity of XML Publishing Transducers". In Proceedings of the 26th ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS), Beijing, China, 2007, pp. 83-92. Download paper [external PDF, 209KB].
Wenfei Fan, Gao Cong, and Philip Bohannon. "Querying XML with Update Syntax". In Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Beijing, China, 2007, pp. 293-304. Download paper [external PDF, 209KB].
Gao Cong, Wenfei Fan, Floris Geerts, Xibei Jia, and Shuai Ma. "Improving Data Quality: Consistency and Accuracy". 33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), University of Vienna, Austria, 2007.
Loreto Bravo, Wenfei Fan, and Shuai Ma. "Extending Dependencies with Conditions". 33rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), University of Vienna, Austria, 2007.
Susan Davidson, Wenfei Fan, and Carmem Hara. "Propagating XML Constraints to Relations". In Journal of Computer and System Sciences (JCSS), vol. 73, iss. 3, 2007, pp. 316-361. Download paper [external PDF, 702KB].
Marcelo Arenas, Pablo Barcelo, and Leonid Libkin. "Combining Temporal Logics for Querying XML Documents". 11th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2007), Barcelona, Spain. Download paper [external PDF, 206KB].
Peter Buneman, James Cheney, and Stijn Vansummeren. "On the expressiveness of implicit provenance in query and update languages". 11th International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT 2007), Barcelona, Spain. Download paper [external PDF, 263KB].
Erich Grädel, Phokion G. Kolaitis, Leonid Libkin, Maarten Marx, Joel Spencer, Moshe Y. Vardi, Yde Venema, and Scott Weinstein. "Finite Model Theory and Its Applications (Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series)". S. 2007, XIII, 437 p., 35 illus., Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-00428-8. Buy from Springer [external].
Gao Cong, Wenfei Fan, and Anastasios Kementsietsidis. "Distributed Query Evaluation with Performance Guarantees". In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Beijing, China, 2007, pp. 509-520. Download paper [external PDF, 527KB].
Philip Bohannon, Wenfei Fan, Floris Geerts, Xibei Jia, and Anastasios Kementsietsidis. "Conditional Functional Dependencies for Data Cleaning". Best paper award at 23rd International Conference on Database Engineering (ICDE), Istanbul, Turkey, 2007. Download paper [external PDF, 290KB].
Wenfei Fan, Floris Geerts, Xibei Jia, and Anastasios Kementsietsidis. "Rewriting Regular XPath Queries on XML Views". 23rd International Conference on Database Engineering (ICDE), Istanbul, Turkey, 2007. Download paper [external PDF, 313KB].
Byron Choi, Gao Cong, Wenfei Fan, and Stratis D. Viglas. "Updating Recursive XML Views of Relations". 23rd International Conference on Database Engineering (ICDE), Istanbul, Turkey, 2007. Download paper [external PDF, 304KB].
Stratis D. Viglas. "Distributed File Structures in a Peer-to-Peer Environment". 23rd International Conference on Database Engineering (ICDE), Istanbul, Turkey, 2007. Download paper [external PDF, 465KB].
Sihem Amer-Yahia, Irini Fundulaki, and Laks Lakshmanan. "Personalizing XML Search in PIMENTO". 23rd International Conference on Database Engineering (ICDE), Istanbul, Turkey, 2007. Download paper [external PDF, 2.8MB].

2006

Lauri Eronen, Floris Geerts, and Hannu Toivonen. "HaploRec: Efficient and accurate large-scale reconstruction of haplotypes". BMC Bioinformatics, vol. 7:542, 2006. Download paper [external].
Gao Cong, Wenfei Fan, and Floris Geerts. "Annotation Propagation Revisited for Key Preserving Views". In Proceedings of the 15th ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Arlington, Virginia, USA, 2006. Download paper [external PDF, 367KB].
Leonid Libkin. "Logics for Unranked Trees: An Overview". Logical Methods in Computer Science, vol. 2, 2006, pp. 1-31. Download paper [external PDF, 388KB].
Leonid Libkin. "Data exchange and incomplete information". In Proceedings of the 25th ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS), Chicago, IL, USA, 2006, pp. 60-69. Download paper [external PDF, 222KB].
Solmaz Kolahi and Leonid Libkin. "On redundancy vs dependency preservation in normalization: an information-theoretic study of 3NF". In Proceedings of the 25th ACM SIGMOD-SIGACT-SIGART Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS), Chicago, IL, USA, 2006, pp. 114-123. Download paper [external PDF, 225KB].
Peter Buneman, Adriane Chapman, and James Cheney. "Provenance management in curated databases". In Proceedings of the 2006 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Chicago, IL, USA, pp. 539-550. Download paper [external PDF, 191KB].
Hanyu Li, Mong-Li Lee, Wynne Hsu, and Gao Cong. "An Estimation System for XPath Expressions". In Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE'06), 2006, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Download paper [external PDF, 360KB].
Floris Geerts, Bart Kuijpers, and Jan Van den Bussche. "Linearization and Completeness Results for Terminating Transitive Closure Queries on Spatial Databases". In SIAM Journal on Computing, vol. 35, iss. 6, 2007, pp. 1386-1439. Download paper [external PDF, 484KB].
Floris Geerts, Peter Revesz, and Jan Van den Bussche. "On-Line Maintenance of Simplified Weighted Graphs for Efficient Distance Queries". In Proceedings of the 14th International Symposium on Advances in Geographical Information Systems, Arlington, Virginia, USA, 2006. Download paper [external PDF, 216KB].
Philip Bohannon, Eiman Elnahrawy, Wenfei Fan, and Michael Flaster. "Putting Context into Schema Matching". In Proceedings of the 32nd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Seoul, Korea, 2006, pp. 307-318. Download paper [external PDF, 639KB]. Download slides [external PPT, 954KB].
Peter Buneman, Gao Cong, Wenfei Fan, and Anastasios Kementsietsidis. "Using Partial Evaluation in Distributed Query Evaluation". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Seoul, Korea, 2006. Download paper [external PDF, 671KB]. Download slides [external PPT, 348KB].
James Cheney. "Tradeoffs in XML Database Compression". In Proceedings of the IEEE Data Compression Conference, Vancouver, Canada, 2006, pp. 392-401. Download paper [external PDF, 114KB].
Gao Cong. "Summarizing Frequent Patterns Using Profiles". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA), Singapore, 2006. Download paper [external PDF, 464KB].
Wenfei Fan, Floris Geerts, Xibei Jia, and Anastasios Kementsietsidis. "SMOQE: A System for Providing Secure Access to XML Data (DEMO)". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Seoul, Korea, 2006. Download paper [external PDF, 923KB]. Download slides [external PDF, 383KB].
Wenfei Fan and Lisha Ma. "Selectively Storing XML Data in Relations". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA), Krakow, Poland, 2006. Download paper [external PDF, 446KB].
Floris Geerts, Anastasios Kementsietsidis, and Diego Milano. "iMONDRIAN: A Visual Tool To Annotate and Query Scientific Databases (Demo)". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT), Munich, Germany, 2006, pp. 1168-1171. Download paper [external PDF, 280KB].
Floris Geerts, Anastasios Kementsietsidis, and Diego Milano. "MONDRIAN: Annotating and querying databases through colors and blocks". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Atlanta, USA, 2006. Download paper [external PDF, 465KB].

2005

Marcelo Arenas, Wenfei Fan, and Leonid Libkin. "Consistency Issues in XML Databases" in Inconsistency Tolerance, LNCS State-of-the-Art: Springer, 2005, pp. 15-41. Download paper [external PDF, 356KB].
Michael Benedikt, Wenfei Fan, and Floris Geerts. "XPath Satisfiability in the Presence of DTDs". In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS), Maryland, USA, 2005, pp. 25-36. Download paper [external PDF, 170KB].
Michael Benedikt, Wenfei Fan, and Gabriel Kuper. "Structural Properties of XPath Fragments". Theoretical Computer Science (TCS), vol. 336, no. 1, 2005, pp. 3-31. Download paper [external PDF, 369KB].
Philip Bohannon, Wenfei Fan, Michael Flaster, and P.P.S. Narayan. "Information Preserving XML Schema Embedding". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Trondheim, Norway, 2005, pp. 85-96. Download paper [external PDF, 225KB]. Download slides [external PPT, 249KB].
Philip Bohannon, Michael Flaster, Wenfei Fan, and Rajeev Rastogi. "A Cost-Based Model and Effective Heuristic for Repairing Constraints by Value Modification". In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Baltimore, USA, 2005, pp. 143-154. Download paper [external PDF, 566KB].
Rajendra Bose and James Frew. "Lineage Retrieval for Scientific Data Processing: A Survey". ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 37, no. 1, 2005, pp. 1-28. Download paper [external PDF, 729KB].
P Buneman, B Choi, W Fan, R Hutchison, R Mann, and S Viglas. "Vectorizing and Querying Large XML Repositories". In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Tokyo, Japan, 2005, pp. 261-272. Download paper [external PDF, 264KB].
James Cheney. "Scrap your Nameplate (Functional Pearl)". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP), Tallinn, Estonia, 2005, pp. 180-191. Download paper [external PDF, 225KB].
Gao Cong, Kian-Lee Tan, Anthony K. H. Tung, and Xin Xu. "Mining Top-k Covering Rule Groups for Gene Expression Data". In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Baltimore, USA, 2005, pp. 670-681. Download paper [external PDF, 416KB].
Wenfei Fan. "XML Constraints: Specification, Analysis, and Applications". In Proceedings of the Logical Aspect and Applications of Integrity Constraints (LAAIC), Copenhagen, 2005. Download paper [external PDF, 168KB].
Wenfei Fan, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Hongjun Lu, and Jianhua Lu. "Query Translation from XPath to SQL in the Presence of Recursive DTDs". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Trondheim, Norway, 2005. Download paper [external PDF, 258KB]. Download slides [external PDF, 140KB].
Floris Geerts and Wenfei Fan. "Satisfiability of XPath Queries with Sibling Axes". In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Database Programming Languages (DBPL), Trondheim, Norway, 2005. Download paper [external PDF, 471KB].
Floris Geerts, Bart Goethals, and Jan Van den Bussche. "Tight Upper Bounds on the Number of Candidate Patterns". ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS), vol. 30, no. 2, 2005, pp. 333-363. Download paper [external PDF, 458KB].
Floris Geerts and Bart Kuijpers. "The Decidability of Termination of Query Evaluation in Transitive-closure Logics for Polynomial Constraint Databases". Theoretical Computer Science (TCS), vol. 336, no. 1, 2005, pp. 125-151. Download paper [external PDF, 316KB].
Bingsheng He, Qiong Luo, and Byron Choi. "Cache-Conscious Automata for XML Filtering". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Tokyo, Japan, 2005, pp. 878-889. Download paper [external PDF, 2.6MB].
Md. Mehedi Masud, Iluju Kiringa, and Anastasios Kementsietsidis. "Don't Mind Your Vocabulary: Data Sharing Across Heterogeneous Peers". In Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems (CoopIS), Agia Napa, Cyprus, 2005, pp. 292-309. Download paper [external PDF, 602KB].
Patricia Rodríguez-Gianolli, Maddalena Garzetti, Lei Jiang, Anastasios Kementsietsidis, Iluju Kiringa, Mehedi Masud, Renée J. Miller, and John Mylopoulos. "Data Sharing in the Hyperion Peer Database System (Demo)". In Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Trondheim, Norway, 2005, pp. 1291-1294. Download paper [external PDF, 106KB].

2004

Rajeev Alur, Kousha Etessami, and P. Madhusudan. "A Temporal Logic of Nested Calls and Returns". In Proceedings of the Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems (TACAS), Barcelona, Spain, 2004, pp. 467-481. Download paper [external PDF, 241KB].
Philip Bohannon, Byron Choi, and Wenfei Fan. "Incremental Evaluation of Schema-Directed XML Publishing". In Proceedings of the 2004 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Paris, France, 2004, pp. 503-514. Download paper [external PDF, 372KB]. Download appendices and supplements [external PDF, 148KB].
Peter Buneman, Sanjeev Khanna, Keishi Tajima, and Wang Chiew Tan. "Archiving Scientific Data". ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS) vol. 29, 2004, pp. 2-42. Download paper [external PDF, 746KB].
Byron Choi, Wenfei Fan, Xibei Jia, and Arek Kasprzyk. "A Uniform System for Publishing and Maintaining XML Data (Demo)". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Toronto, Canada, 2004, pp. 1301-1304. Download paper [external PDF, 129KB].
Kousha Etessami. "Analysis of Recursive Game Graphs Using Data Flow Equations". In Proceedings of the Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation (VMCAI) Venice, Italy, 2004, pp. 282-296. Download paper [external PDF, 212KB].
Wenfei Fan, Chee Yong Chan, and Minos N. Garofalakis. "Secure XML Querying with Security Views". In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, Paris, France, 2004, pp. 587-598. Download paper [external PDF, 229KB].
Wenfei Fan, Ming Xiong, Minos N. Garofalakis, and Xibei Jia. "Composable XML Integration Grammars". In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM), Washington, U.S.A., 2004, pp. 2-11. Download paper [external PDF, 257KB].
Floris Geerts, Heikki Mannila, and Evimaria Terzi. "Relational Link-Based Ranking". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Toronto, Canada, 2004, pp. 552-563. Download paper [external PDF, 242KB].
Georg Gottlob and Christoph Koch. "Monadic Datalog and the Expressive Power of Languages for Web Information Extraction". Journal of the ACM, vol. 51, no. 1, 2004, pp. 74-113. Download paper [external PDF, 278KB].
Georg Gottlob, Christoph Koch, and Klaus Schulz. "Conjunctive Queries over Trees" In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS), Paris, France, 2004, pp. 189-200. Download paper [external PDF, 266KB].
Christoph Koch. "Query Rewriting with Symmetric Constraints". AI Communications, vol. 17, no. 2, 2004, pp. 41-55. Download paper [external PDF, 216KB].
Chee Yong Chan, Wenfei Fan, and Yiming Zeng. "Taming XPath Queries by Minimizing Wildcard Steps". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), Toronto, Canada, 2004, pp. 156-167. Download paper [external PDF, 174KB].

2003

Rajeev Alur, Swarat Chaudhuri, Kousha Etessami, Sudipto Guha, and Mihalis Yannakakis. "Compression of Partially Ordered Strings". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Concurrency Theory (CONCUR 2003), 2003, pp. 42-56. Download paper [external PDF, 196KB].
Rajeev Alur, Kousha Etessami, and Mihalis Yannakakis. "Inference of Message Sequence Charts". IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (TSE) vol. 29, no. 7, 2003, pp. 623-633. Download paper [external PDF, 1.0MB].
Malcolm P. Atkinson. "Databases and the Grid: Who Challenges Whom?" . In Proceedings of the New Horizons in Information Management, 20th British National Conference on Databases (BNCOD 2003), 2003, pp. 1-2. Download paper [external PDF, 61KB].
Michael Benedikt, Chee Yong Chan, Wenfei Fan, Juliana Freire, and Rajeev Rastogi. "Capturing both Types and Constraints in Data Integration". In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2003, pp. 277-288. Download paper [external PDF, 691KB].
Michael Benedikt, Wenfei Fan, and Gabriel M. Kuper. "Structural Properties of XPath Fragments". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Database Theory (ICDT), 2003, pp. 79-95. Download paper [external PDF, 282KB].
Peter Buneman, Susan B. Davidson, Wenfei Fan, Carmem S. Hara, and Wang Chiew Tan. "Reasoning About Keys for XML". Information Systems, vol. 28, no. 8, 2003, pp. 1037-1063. Download paper [external PDF, 508KB].
Peter Buneman, Wenfei Fan, and Scott Weinstein. "Interaction Between Path and Type Constraints". ACM Transactions on Computational Logic (TOCL) vol. 4, no. 4, 2003, pp. 530-577. Download paper [external PDF, 511KB].
Peter Buneman, Martin Grohe, and Christoph Koch. "Path Queries on Compressed XML". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 2003, pp. 141-152. Download paper [external PDF, 222KB].
Mark Cumiskey, John Levine, and Douglas Armstrong. "Gene Network Reconstruction Using a Distributed Genetic Algorithm with a Backprop Local Search". In Proceedings of the Applications of Evolutionary Computing (EvoWorkshops 2003), 2003, pp. 33-43. Download paper [external PDF, 204KB].
Susan B. Davidson, Carmem Hara, Wenfei Fan, and Jing Qin. "Propagating XML Constraints to Relations". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2003. Download paper [external PDF].
Huw Evans, Malcolm P. Atkinson, Margaret Brown, Julie Cargill, Murray Crease, Steve Draper, Philip D. Gray, and Richard Thomas. "The pervasiveness of evolution in GRUMPS software". Software - Practice and Experience (SPE), vol. 33, no. 2, 2003, pp. 99-120. Download paper [external PDF, 211KB].
Mary F. Fernandez, Jérôme Siméon, Byron Choi, Amélie Marian, and Gargi Sur. "Implementing Xquery 1.0: The Galax Experience". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 2003, pp. 1077-1080. Download paper [external PDF, 24KB].
Markus Frick, Martin Grohe, and Christoph Koch. "Query Evaluation on Compressed Trees". In Proceedings of the EEE Symposium on Logic in Computer Science (LICS 2003), 2003. Download paper [external PDF, 379KB].
Georg Gottlob and Christoph Koch. "XPath Query Processing". In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Database Programming Languages (DBPL 2003), 2003. Download paper [external PDF, 57KB].
Georg Gottlob, Christoph Koch, and Reinhard Pichler. "The complexity of XPath query evaluation". In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Principles of Database Systems (PODS), 2003, pp. 179-190. Download paper [external PDF, 223KB].
Georg Gottlob, Christoph Koch, and Reinhard Pichler. "XPath Processing in a Nutshell". SIGMOD Record vol. 32, no. 1, 2003, pp. 12-19. Download paper [external PDF, 201KB].
Georg Gottlob, Christoph Koch, and Reinhard Pichler. "XPath Processing in a Nutshell (Duplicate publication)". SIGMOD Record vol. 32, no. 2, 2003, pp. 21-27. Download paper [external PDF, 889KB].
Georg Gottlob, Christoph Koch, and Reinhard Pichler. "XPath Query Evaluation: Improving Time and Space Efficiency". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2003, pp. 379-390. Download paper [external PDF, 181KB].
Alan Halverson, Stratis Viglas, and David J. DeWitt. "Mixed Mode XML Query Processing" In Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 2003, pp. 225-236. Download paper [external PDF, 152KB].
Jaewoo Kang, Jeffrey F. Naughton, and Stratis Viglas. "Evaluating Window Joins over Unbounded Streams" In Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), 2003, pp. 341-352. Download paper [external PDF, 260KB].
Christoph Koch. "Efficient Processing of Expressive Node-Selecting Queries on XML Data in Secondary Storage: A Tree Automata-based Approach". In Proceedings of the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 2003, pp. 249-260. Download paper [external PDF, 236KB].
Christoph Koch, Nicola Leone, and Gerald Pfeifer. "Enhancing disjunctive logic programming systems by SAT checkers". Artificial Intelligence, vol. 151, no. 1-2, 2003, pp. 177-212. Download paper [external PDF, 467KB].
Christoph Koch and Stefanie Scherzinger. "Attribute Grammars for Scalable Query Processing on XML Streams". In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Database Programming Languages (DBPL 2003), 2003, pp. 233-256. Download paper [external PDF, 209KB].
Xinmin Tian, Milind Girkar, Sanjiv Shah, Douglas Armstrong, Ernesto Su, and Paul Petersen. "Compiler and Runtime Support for Running OpenMP Programs on Pentium- and Itanium-Architectures". In Proceedings of the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2003), 2003. Download paper [external PDF, 298KB].
Stratis Viglas, Jeffrey F. Naughton, and Josef Burger. "Maximizing the Output Rate of Multi-Way Join Queries over Streaming Information Sources". In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB), 2003, pp. 285-296. Download paper [external PDF, 968KB].

2002

Aoying Zhou, Qing Wang, and Wenfei Fan. "TREX: DTD-Conforming XML to XML Transformations (Demo)". In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2003, pp. 670-670. Download paper [external PDF, 88KB].
Peter Buneman, Sanjeev Khanna, Keishi Tajima, and Wang Chiew Tan. "Archiving scientific data". In Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, 2002, pp. 1-12. Download paper [external PDF, 1.27MB].
Christoph Koch. "Query Rewriting with Symmetric Constraints". In Proceedings of the FoIKS, 2002. Download paper [external PDF, 241KB].
Christoph Koch and Georg Gottlob. "Monadic Datalog and the Expressive Power of Languages for Web Information Extraction". In Proceedings of the PODS, 2002. Download paper [external PDF, 281KB].

Draft Publications

The following draft publications are open for public review and comments:

Cheney, J; Mann, B (August 2005). "A Safe Data Analysis Environment for Astronomical Data Centres" (a paper that discusses some of the requirements that astronomers have for a safe data analysis environment and outlines possible ways of meeting them). Download paper [PDF, 183KB].

We welcome all comments regarding our draft publications so please tell us what you think!