USETIM (Using Search Engine Technology for Information Management)

For information management, databases offer precise, controlled access to data. But, they do not offer the easy-to-use search capabilities that most knowledge workers manipulate daily on sites such as Google. Access to information contained in databases is more difficult, and more restricted. One solution to this information bottleneck is to let search engines support the brunt of the work, by offloading information from the database into alternative infrastructures, such as that provided by search engine technology. Many business applications such as search, report generation and data analysis might be performed more efficiently on the replicated data without involving the native database technology, e.g. transactions. These offloaded databases, retaining some of their structure, can be recombined, mashed up, creating one-off, possibly disposable, databases, while the primary data is safe in the original database. This workshop will examine the limits and potentialities of use information retrieval and search engine technology for information management (IM) applications.

USETIM 2009 will be held Monday, August 24, 2009 during VLDB 2009 at the Cite Internationale (Convention Center, http://www.cite-internationale-lyon.fr/ and http://www.ccc-lyon.com/) in Lyon, France.

Schedule: August 24, 2009

Chairs

Program Committee