The Cimple Project on Community Information Management
     AnHai Doan, University of Wisconsin-Madison

In this talk I will give an overview of Cimple, a joint project
between the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Yahoo! Research.
Cimple develops a generic solution that crawls, extracts, and
integrates data, to build structured "portals" for online
communities. I will first describe the envisioned working of Cimple
and our prototype, DBlife, which is a structured portal being
developed for the database research community.  Next, I describe the
technical challenges underlying Cimple and our solution approaches.
Finally, I discuss the connections between Cimple and research in data
integration, information extraction, human computation, and Web data
management. More information about Cimple can be found at
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~anhai/projects/cimple