Divyasheel [Divy] Sharma, a member of the Network-Aware Data Management Group at the School of Information Sciences, will be giving a dbtalk. The topic will be announced shortly.

This is a survey of existing database annotation systems, which identifies properties of annotation systems and compares existing systems with respect to these properties. Open problems and challenges that existing systems do not address are also exposed.

In the first dbtalk of our 2010-11 academic year, Panickos will be presenting the Kepler Workflow Engine -- software for the management of scientific workflows. More information can be found at the project's website:

https://kepler-project.org/

Panickos will be giving a practice talk for his upcoming paper presentation at MobiDE'10.

Roxana presented another paper from the annotations field:

Supporting annotations on relations

Mohamed Y. Eltabakh, Walid G. Aref, Ahmed K. Elmagarmid, Mourad Ouzzani, Yasin N. Silva

Published in proceedings of EDBT'09