Cs353 Database Systems

Scientific Papers Digital Library

GROUP-9
PROPOSAL REPORT
Ebubekir Karabua
Yazhan Gler
Mahmut YIlmaz

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Description Of The Project

We are building a database system for a digital library of scientific papers. Our system is
designed in a way which allows the storage of presentation of scientific papers in an efficient
an elegant way. The system not only stores information regarding researchers, publications,
institutions and awards that were given to papers but also users and their favourited papers so
that it is far more convenient for a user to access a paper that were browsed in the past and
slightly appreciated..

Requirements / Limitations
- Each researcher works at an institution.
- Papers are written by project groups that consist of one or multiple researchers.
- Papers are uploaded to the system by the system admin who also changes / updates the
p_state of the paper.
- Papers can be technical reports or conference papers / journal entries which is stored in the
database as p_type.
- If a paper is not a technical report , the aforementioned conference or journal is stored in the
database.
- Each publication can be published at one journal or conference.
- Publications cite other publication thus a publication has one or multiple citations that refer
to other papers which is allowed by the usage of pub_id.
- Institutions give awards to published papers , each award can only be given to one paper at a
given year.
- Subscribers sign up to the system in order to access the papers and they sign in using their
username and password.
- Subscribers can view papers which increases the view count of the papers and they can
favourite the articles they loved.

CONCEPTUAL DESIGN