Hypertext Views of Databases

This project studies languages and systems to construct hypertextual views of databases. We examine different approaches to map database objects to hypertext components.

LAZY Language and Tools

The Lazy system is composed of:

a declarative language to define a hypertext structure (nodes and links) and the contents of each node (in terms of database elements);

a compiler to translate nodes and links definitions into database queries;

a node server to take node requests, execute the appropriate database queries, and return an HTML formatted node.

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Related Technical Reports and Articles

Design and Analysis of Virtual Museums (contains an introduction to the Lazy language)
Languages and Tools to Specify Hypertext Views on Databases
Des documents virtuels pour lire les bases de données (using Lazy to generate virtual documents)
Generating Hypertext Views on Databases (full paper)
Generating Hypertext Views on Databases (short paper)
"World-Wide Web: What Links to Databases?"
"World-Wide Web: What Links to Databases? Part II" .

 

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