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A Schema-Less Data Model for the Web

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Conceptual Modeling (ER 2015)

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To extract and represent domain-independent web scale data, we introduce a schema-less and self-describing data model called Object-oriented Web Model (OWM), which is rich in semantics and flexible in structure. It represents web pages as objects with hierarchical structures and links in a web page as relationships to other objects, so that objects form a network. Taking use of web segmentation techniques, data from data-intensive web pages can be extracted, represented and integrated as OWM objects.

This work is supported by National Natural Science Funds of China under grant No. 61202100.

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  1. State Key Lab of Software Engineering, School of Computer, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China

    Liu Chen, Mengchi Liu & Ting Yu

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  2. National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

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  3. Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA

    Stephen W. Liddle

  4. University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

    Andreas L. Opdahl

  5. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Valencia, Spain

    Óscar Pastor López

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Chen, L., Liu, M., Yu, T. (2015). A Schema-Less Data Model for the Web. In: Johannesson, P., Lee, M., Liddle, S., Opdahl, A., Pastor López, Ó. (eds) Conceptual Modeling. ER 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9381. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25264-3_44

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