WebStand

WebStand Presentation

WebStand is a French ANR funded project (ANR-05-JC05-53339). It is a joint computer-science and sociology project, involving the following partners :

• Computer Science Labs
  • University of Versailles St-Quentin (B. Nguyen)
  • INRIA-Futurs, Project GEMO (I. Manolescu)
  • University of Paris XI (D. Colazzo)
  • ENST-ParisTech (P. Senellart)
• Sociology labs
  • University of the Mediterranée (A. Vion)
  • University of Paris-Dauphine (F-X. Dudouet)

Its goal is to :

• Develop a generic architecture, system and methodology to manage web based sociological semi-structured data (XML)
• Validate using an IT case study (W3C and ISO)

To contact us : please email to : [benjie] [dot] [nguyen] [at] [gmail] [dot] [com]

WebStand Software

If you wish to install the WebStand platform and have technical problems, do not hesitate to contact us via email for support. Please entitle your message [WebStand-Support].

XML development platform

• aXess, sociological oriented graphical schema creator and XML query interface. Open source. Developped by PRiSM, LRI and LEST.

Use public / public as login and password for the SVN.

Modules

- CV-Crawler, discovery and XML extraction of CV oriented information on internet. Can be used as a stand alone module, or as presented here, within the aXess framework. Open source, uses Exalead.com search engine. Contact exalead.com in order to get a login. Developped by PRiSM.

- XClean, cleaning of XML data. Developped by INRIA GEMO & Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

- ULoad, an efficient XML store based on XAMs. Developped by INRIA GEMO & LRI.

BMS paper queries

In the context of our article in the Bulletin of Sociological Methodology(BMS), we detail in the XQueryBMSPage the queries used and we link to their results.

WebStand Communications

• WebStand Final Report French Version (july 2009)

WebStand Poster

Our poster at WebSci'09 presents an overview of the project.

Multi Partner Communications

(Alphabetical)

• Bogdan Butnaru, Florin Dragan, Georges Gardarin, Ioana Manolescu, Benjamin Nguyen, Radu Pop, Nicoleta Preda, Laurent Yeh, P2PTester: a tool for measuring P2P platform performance(demo). in Proceedings IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE), Istanbul, Turquie, 2007

• Dario Colazzo, François-Xavier Dudouet, Ioana Manolescu, Benjamin Nguyen, Antoine Vion, Traiter des corpus d’information sur le Web. Vers de nouveaux usages informatiques de l’enquête, in Roundtable reflection on the methods of Political Science on both sides of the Atlantic, AFSP Congres, Toulouse, France 2007

• Pablo Andres Diaz, François-Xavier Dudouet, Jean-Christophe Graz, Benjamin Nguyen, Antoine Vion, Gouverner la standardisation par les changements d'arène. Le cas du XML. In Session Economie du politique et politique de l'économie, AFSP congres, Grenoble, France 2009 Slides

• François-Xavier Dudouet, Delphine Mercier, Antoine Vion, Politique Internationale de Normalisation, Quelques jalons pour la recherche empirique. In Revue Française de Science Politique, vol. 56, n°3, 2006

• François-Xavier Dudouet, Benjamin Nguyen, Antoine Vion, New web standard in the making in Technical Regulations of Internet workshop, X-Telecom ParisTech (Orange chair), 2009

• François-Xavier Dudouet, Benjamin Nguyen, Antoine Vion, The governance of web standards. Economic struggles in the XML case , in Second International Workshop on Global Internet Governance: An Interdisciplinary Research Field in Construction, Brussels, 2009

• François-Xavier Dudouet, Benjamin Nguyen, Antoine Vion, New web standards in the making: Transnational private governance and beyond, in Global Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) Third Annual Symposium, Hyderabad, India, 2008

• Benjamin Nguyen, Antoine Vion, François-Xavier Dudouet, Dario Colazzo, Ioana Manolescu, Pierre Sennelart, XML Content Warehousing : Improving Sociological Studies of Mailing Lists and Web Data, in Sociological Methodology Bulletin, à paraître (2011)

• Benjamin Nguyen, Antoine Vion, François-Xavier Dudouet, Dario Colazzo, Ioana Manolescu, WebStand, une plateforme de gestion de données Web pour applications sociologiques, Revue de Technique et Science Informatiques (TSI), numéro spécial sur L'informatique à l'Interface des Sciences Humaines et Sociales, vol. 29(8-9):1055-1080, 2010

• Benjamin Nguyen, Antoine Vion, François-Xavier Dudouet, Ioana Manolescu, Dario Colazzo, Pierre Senellart, The WebStand Project, in WebSci'09 - The Web Science Overlay Journal, Athens, Greece, 2009

• Benjamin Nguyen, Antoine Vion, François-Xavier Dudouet, Loïc Saint-Ghislain, Applying an XML Warehouse to Social Network Analysis, Lessons from the WebStand Project, in W3C Workshop on the Future of Social Networking, Barcelona, Spain, 2009

• Antoine Vion, François-Xavier Dudouet, Debating on standards, XML from W3C controversies to the ISO struggle, Society for Social Studies of Science (4S) Annual Meeting, Montreal, Canada, 2007

• Antoine Vion, François-Xavier Dudouet, Benjamin Nguyen, Expériences de modélisation et de temporalisation des données Web en entrepôts XML in French Association of Sociology Congress (AFS), RT 20 Methods - Paris, France, 2009

Single Partner Publications

• Andrei Arion, Veronique Benzaken, Ioana Manolescu and Yannis Papakonstantinou, Structured Materialized Views for XML Queries, In 33rd International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB) Conference 2007.

• Andrei Arion, Veronique Benzaken, Ioana Manolescu, Ravi Vijay and Yannis Papakonstantinou: Algebra-based Tree Pattern Extraction in XQuery, in Flexible Query Answering Systems 2006

• Andrei Arion, Angela Bonifati, Ioana Manolescu and Andrea Pugliese, Path Summaries and Path Partitioning in Modern XML Databases, in World Wide Web Journal

• Veronique Benzaken, Guiseppe Castagna, Dario Colazzo, and Kim Nguyen, Type-Based XML Projection. In 32nd International Conference on Very Large Databases (VLDB), 2006.

• Giorgio Ghelli, Dario Colazzo, Carlo Sartiani. Linear Time Membership for a Class of XML Types with Interleaving and Counting. In PLAN-X 2008: ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Programming Language Techniques for XML, California, USA, 2008

• Giorgio Ghelli, Dario Colazzo and Carlo Sartiani, Efficient Inclusion for a Class of XML Types with Interleaving and Counting. Proceedings of 11th International Symposium on Database Programming Languages (DBPL 2007), Vienna, Austria. 2007.

• Melanie Weis and Ioana Manolescu, XClean in Action (Demo), in CIDR 2007: 259-262

• Melanie Weis and Ioana Manolescu, Declarative XML Data Cleaning with XClean, in CAISE 2007

Invited Seminars

• Benjamin Nguyen, Problèmes de protection des données dans les bases de données sociologiques, Presentation for SMIS project (INRIA) - Rocquencourt, France, 6/10/09
• The WebStand Team, presented by Benjamin Nguyen and Antoine Vion, The WebStand Project, W3C Project Review, International Video Conference, 09/04/09
• Benjamin Nguyen, Dario Colazzo, Ioana Manolescu, François-Xavier Dudouet and Antoine Vion, Source-centric temporal model for information modelling in social sciences, Gemo-Seminar, Orsay, France, 16/05/08
• Antoine Vion, and Benjamin Nguyen, Outils informatiques pour la sociologie ; étude de la sociologie des normalisateurs du groupe XQuery du W3C, Colloque Socio-Informatique EHESS, Paris, France, 2007

Technical Reports

• Dario Colazzo, François-Xavier Dudouet, Ioana Manolescu, Benjamin Nguyen, A Source Centric Temporal Model, Technical Report, 2008