The paper presents a framework for publishing relational databases in textual documents such as mails, HTML pages, LATEX or BibTex files, plain texts, etc. The publication process relies on a mapping of the relational database to a virtual data graph which supports navigation operators. Applications can express the data they need by navigating in the graph. These operations are provided by a declarative query language over virtual graphs, named DOCQL. We illustrate its features with the conference management system MYREVIEW.
Citation:
Sonia Guehis, Philippe Rigaux, Emmanuel Waller, "Data-Driven Publication of Relational Databases," ideas, pp.267-272, 10th International Database Engineering and Applications Symposium (IDEAS'06), 2006