The Araneus Web-based management system
Giansalvatore Mecca, Paolo Atzeni, A. Masci, Giuseppe Sindoni, Paolo Merialdo · 1998
The paper describes the ARANEUS Wel-Base Management System, a system developed at University Roma Tre, which represents a proposal towards the definition of a new kind of data-repository, designed to manage Web data in the database style. We call a Web-Base a collection of data of heterogeneous nature, and more specifically: (i) highly structured data, such as the ones typically stored in relational or object-oriented database systems; (ii) semistructured data, in the Web style. We can simplify by saying that it incorporates both databases and Web sites. A Web-Base Management System (WBMS) is a system for managing such Web-bases