Web-Site Management: The Strudel Approach.
Mary Fernández, Daniela Florescu, Alon Y. Levy, Dan Mircea Suciu · 1998
The World-Wide Web (WWW) has become a prime vehicle for disseminating information. As a result, the num-ber of large Web sites with complex structure and that serve information derived from multiple data sources isincreasing. Managing the content and the structure of such Web sites presents anovel data management problem,which has not been previously considered by the database community.To understand the problem, consider a Web-site builder’s tasks: (1) choosing and accessing the data that willbe displayed at the site, (2) designing the site’s structure, i.e., specifying the data contained within each page andthe links between pages, and (3) designing the visual presentation of pages. In existing Web-site managementtools, these tasks are, for the most part, interdependent. Without any site-creation tools, a site builder writesHTML files by hand or writes programs to produce them and must f ocus simultaneously on a page’s content, itsrelationship to other pages, and its visual presentation. As a result, several important tasks, such as automaticallyupdating a site, restructuring a site, or enforcing integrity constraints on a site’s structure, are tedious to perform.To support these tasks naturally, we view the problem from a data management perspective.We decided to study the web-site construction and management problem from a database perspective. Wehave developed the S