Taste of Time Award

SEBD 2025 - Taste of Time Award Nomination 

• Nominations Due: 10 June 2025

• Nomination Form: https://forms.gle/g1rraNHPn2rkJQoK7

The purpose of the “Taste of Time” Award (TTA) is to recognize seminal contributions and to retrace the history of the Italian database community by selecting significant (AND TASTY 😁) papers from past editions of SEBD.

The ultimate goal is to keep the tradition of the SEBD community alive, to contextualize the most important research lines and make sense of their evolution, and to inspire new generations of researchers by discussing how key challenges have been addressed, which ones are still open, and what can follow-up from them.

The Steering Committee of SEBD will select papers based on the following impact criteria

+ impact within (a subarea of) the database research community

+ impact outside of the database research community

+ impact on the non-research community

Papers eligible for the TTA are either original research published at SEBD or extended abstracts of papers published in main venues for the community.

In both cases evidence about the impact of the paper (or related paper, in case of extended abstracts) has to be provided, e.g., follow-up works (papers, systems, …), new theories and models, social and/or industrial impact, citations, …

The SEBD community is very welcome to nominate papers deemed deserving of the TTA. Eligible papers for this round are those published in

+ 6th SEBD 1998: Ancona, Italy -  https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/sebd/sebd1998.html

+ 7th SEBD 1999: Como, Italy -  https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/sebd/sebd1999.html

+ 8th SEBD 2000: L'Aquila, Italy -  https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/sebd/sebd2000.html

+ 9th SEBD 2001: Venezia, Italy -  https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/sebd/sebd2001.html

Each nominator can nominate more than one paper, filling in the form once for each nominated paper. Similarly, the same paper can be nominated by more than one nominator. Nominators cannot belong to the same research group as nominated papers, which also excludes self-nominations.