Readings (evolving)

Raman, Hellerstein. Potter's Wheel: An Interactive Data Cleaning System. VLDB 2001.

For more recent related work, see the PADS project. E.g. Fisher, Walker, Zhu and White. From Dirt to Shovels: Fully Automatic Tool Generation from Ad Hoc Data. POPL 2008.

Galhardas, Florescu and Shasha. Declarative Data Cleaning: Language, Model, and Algorithms. VLDB 2001.

Dasu, Johnson, Muthukrishnan and Shkapenyuk. Mining database structure; or, how to build a data quality browser. SIGMOD 2002.

For a more general overview, see Johnson, Marathe, Dasu: Database Exploration and Bellman. IEEE Data Engineering Bulletin, 26(3), 2003.
Slides from Johnson's KDD 2004 tutorial: Data Quality and Data Cleaning: An Overview. See recommended reading and bibliography starting on Slide 115.

Huhtala, Karkkainen, Porkka and Toivonen. TANE: An Efficient Algorithm for Discovering Functional and Approximate Dependencies.

Hellerstein. Quantitative Data Cleaning for Large Databases. Report for UNECE, 2008.

Sarawagi and Bhamidipaty. Interactive Deduplication Using Active Learning. KDD 2002. [citeseer]

Introduction to Data Integration. Chapters 1 & 2 of "Principles of Data Integration" by Doan, Halevy and Ives. The chapters will be made available closer to the date.
Generic Schema Matching with Cupid - Madhavan, Bernstein, Rahm, VLDB 2001.
Reconciling Schemas of Disparate Data Sources: A Machine-Learning Approach. AnHai Doan, Pedro Domingos, Alon Y. Halevy. SIGMOD 2001.
Renée J. Miller, Laura M. Haas, Mauricio A. Hernández: Schema Mapping as Query Discovery. VLDB 2000.
Popa, L., Velegrakis, Y., Hernández, M. A., Miller, R. J., and Fagin, R. 2002. Translating web data. VLDB 2002.
Franklin, Halevy and Maier. From Databases to Dataspaces: A New Abstraction for information Management. SIGMOD Record 34(4) 2005.
Chiticariu, Kolaitis and Popa. Interactive Generation of Integrated Schemas. SIGMOD 2008.
Dill et al. SemTag and Seeker: Bootstrapping the Semantic Web via Automated Semantic Annotation.WWW 2003
Noy. Order from Chaos: How can ontologies and the Semantic Web help us structure the world's semi-structured information? ACM Queue 3(8) 2005.

Web Data and Social Networks

Cafarella et al. WebTables: Exploring the Power of Tables on the Web. VLDB 2008.
Cafarella et al. Uncovering the Relational Web. WebDB 2008
Weld et al. Intelligence in Wikipedia. AAAI 2008.

Wu, Hoffmann and Weld. Information Extraction from Wikipedia: Moving Down the Long Tail. KDD 2008.

Kossinets, Kleinberg and Watts. The Structure of Information Pathways in a Social Communication Network. KDD 2008.
Liben-Nowell and Kleinberg. Tracing information flow on a global scale using Internet chain-letter data. PNAS, 1/2008
von Ahn and Dabbish. General Techniques for Designing Games with a Purpose. CACM 8/2008.
von Ahn, et al. reCAPTCHA: Human-Based Character Recognition via Web Security Measures. Science 9/2008.
Bryan Chan, Leslie Wu, Justin Talbot, Mike Cammarano, Pat Hanrahan. "Vispedia: Interactive Visual Exploration of Wikipedia Data via Search-Based Integration". InfoVis 2008
Other proposed reading

Benkler Y. Coase's Penguin, or, Linux and the Nature of the Firm. Yale Law Journal 2002; 112(369).
Cheshire C. Selective Incentives and Generalized Information Exchange. Social Psychology Quarterly 2007; 70(1).
Golder SA, Huberman BA. The Structure of Collaborative Tagging Systems. Journal of Information Science April 2006; 32(2).
Ling K, Beenen G, Ludford P, Wang X, Chang K, Cosley D, Frankowski D, Terveen L, Rashid AM, Resnick P, Kraut R. Using social psychology to motivate contributions to online communities. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 2005, 10(4).