Abstract
Traditional database query formulation is intensional: at the level of schemas, table and column names. Previous work has shown that filters can be created using a query paradigm focused on interaction with data tables. This paper presents a technique, Query-through-Drilldown, to enable join formulation in a dataoriented paradigm. Instead of formulating joins at the level of schemas, the user drills down through tables of data and the query is implicitly created based on the user's actions. Query-through-Drilldown has been applied to a large relational database, but similar techniques could be applied to semi-structured data or semantic web ontologies.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | AVI '08: Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) |
| Pages | 251-259 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
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| Publication status | Published - 28 May 2008 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, AVI 08 - Naples, Italy Duration: 28 May 2008 → 30 May 2008 |
Conference
| Conference | Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, AVI 08 |
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| Country/Territory | Italy |
| City | Naples |
| Period | 28/05/08 → 30/05/08 |
Keywords
- Data structure mining
- Data-oriented interaction
- Database query
- Extensional query
- Query-by-browsing
- Sql
- Tabular interface