SIGMOD Record 29(3): SIGMOD Anthology Editor's Message

1. As you read this report, the CDROMs of volumes 2, 3 and 4 of the ACM SIGMOD Anthology should be in production. For the most recent information check
   http://www.acm.org/sigmod/dblp/db/anthology.html or http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/anthology.html

2. The bibliographic records of the DBLP server are available in an XML-style format; you may download them from ftp://ftp.informatik.uni-trier.de/pub/users/Ley/bib/records.tar.gz

   The records look like

   
   <article key="AgrawalS93">
   
   <author>Divyakant Agrawal</author>,                    <cite>books/aw/BernsteinHG87</cite>
   <author>Soumitra Sengupta</author>,                    <cite>conf/sigmod/ChanFLNR82</cite>
   <title>Modular Synchronization in Distributed,         <cite>journals/tse/ChanG85</cite>
   Multiversion Databases: Version Control and            <cite>journals/cacm/EswarranGLT76</cite>
   Concurrency Control.</title>,                          <cite>journals/tods/Garcia-MolinaW82</cite>
   <pages>126-137</pages>,                                <cite>conf/sosp/Gifford79</cite>
   <year>1993</year>,                                     <cite>conf/ac/Gray78</cite>
   <volume>5</volume>,                                    <cite>journals/ins/HeddayaHW89</cite>
   <journal>TKDE</journal>,                               <cite>journals/tocs/Herlihy86</cite>
   <number>1</number>,                                    <cite>journals/tods/KungR81</cite>
   <url>db/journals/tkde/tkde5.html#AgrawalS93</url>      <cite>journals/jacm/Papadimitriou79b</cite>
   <ee>db/journals/tkde/AgrawalS93.html</ee>              <cite>...</cite>
   <cite>...</cite>                                       <cite>...</cite>
   <cite>journals/dc/AgrawalBGS87</cite>                  <cite>conf/sigmod/StearnsR81</cite>
   <cite>journals/csur/BernsteinG81</cite>                <cite>journals/tods/Thomas79</cite>
   <cite>journals/tods/BernsteinG83</cite>                <cite>journals/tse/Weihl87</cite>
   <cite>conf/podc/BernsteinG83</cite>                    <cite>conf/podc/WuuB84</cite>
   
   </article>
   
   

   The outer tag is the record type: like in BibTeX the record types are ``article'' for a journal paper, ``inproceedings'' for a conference paper, ``book'', ``proceedings'', ``incollection'', etc. The second level tags are the field types. Most fields have the same semantics as in BibTeX, new fields are:

   <url> points to the position of the publication in a table of contents HTML page

   <ee> points to an ``electronic edition'' (citation) page

   <cite> is a citation link (DBLP-ID of the cited publication), or '...' for references not (yet) covered by DBLP.

   You may use the DBLP records as a test or example data set for your software as it was done in the (award winning!) SIGMOD 2000 paper by H. Liefke and D. Suciu or may create new services based on the information provided by DBLP.

3. DBLP now contains more than 100,000 citation links for database publications. The Web page http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/about/top.html shows the most frequently cited DB publications.

The slides shown in Dallas are available on
http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/about/dallas.html