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edbt-topic-selection
GitHub辅助决策数据库项目投稿去向（EDBT/SIGMOD等）及论文类型，依据贡献性质、周期和开放获取需求进行路由，并匹配Regular或实验分析等EDBT特定格式。
Trigger Scenarios
决定数据管理项目的最佳会议投稿地点
选择EDBT论文类型（Regular/Experiments）
Install
npx skills add brycewang-stanford/Awesome-Journal-Skills --skill edbt-topic-selection -g -y
SKILL.md
Frontmatter
{
"name": "edbt-topic-selection",
"description": "Use when deciding whether a data-management project belongs at EDBT or should be routed to SIGMOD, VLDB\/PVLDB, ICDE, the co-located ICDT theory venue, or a database journal, and when choosing the EDBT paper shape (Regular \/ Experiments-&-Analysis \/ Vision) and the nearest submission cycle."
}
EDBT Topic Selection
Decide the venue and the paper shape before drafting. EDBT — the International Conference on Extending Database Technology — is the European database-systems flagship, held jointly with ICDT (its theory sibling) and published open access on OpenProceedings.org. Its reviewers read for a contribution that extends real database technology: systems, applied data management, and experiments-and-analysis work. A paper whose true center is a complexity result, a pure-ML model, or a US-flagship-scale systems marathon may be respected and then rerouted.
The routing question that matters most
EDBT overlaps heavily with SIGMOD, VLDB, and ICDE in scope and reviewer pool, so the decisive question is rarely "is this databases?" but "which database community, publication model, and cycle fits this paper now?" Two EDBT-specific pulls tilt the answer:
- The rolling cycle is often the nearest honest deadline. EDBT's three cycles a year mean a ready paper rarely waits long; if SIGMOD/ICDE/PVLDB's next window is months out, the near EDBT cycle can be the rational choice for a finished contribution.
- Open access matters to some authors and funders. OpenProceedings' CC-BY-NC-ND, author-retained copyright, no-APC model is a genuine reason to prefer EDBT over the paywalled ACM/IEEE DLs.
Sibling-venue routing table
| Signal in your project | Better home | Why |
|---|---|---|
| A contribution that extends database technology — systems, applied data management, experiments — ready now, EDBT cycle nearest | EDBT | European DB-systems flagship; OpenProceedings open access; rolling cycles |
| A flagship-scale systems result you want in the ACM DB community's marquee venue | SIGMOD | US flagship, ACM DL; different cycle and template |
| A polished journal-style systems paper aiming at the PVLDB monthly pipeline | VLDB / PVLDB | Journal-style monthly deadlines; different review model |
| A broad data-engineering contribution wanting the IEEE venue and stage | ICDE | IEEE DL; sibling flagship, different calendar |
| The heart is a complexity, query-language, or dependency-theory result | ICDT | EDBT's co-located theory sibling — theory belongs there, not in EDBT |
| Too long or too deep for the page budget, or a survey | VLDBJ / TODS / TKDE | Journals with no conference page ceiling |
Contribution shapes EDBT rewards (and the paper shape they map to)
- System + architecture / mechanism — a storage, query-processing, indexing, transaction, or integration mechanism, embodied in a real system and measured on real workloads → Regular.
- Distributed / scalable algorithm — an operator or method that extends processing to a new scale, platform, or data type, with a scalability evaluation → Regular.
- Experiments & Analysis — a rigorous benchmarking, repeatability, or comparative study where the measurement itself is the contribution → Experiments & Analysis paper.
- Applied data management / experience — extending a working system to a real operational need, reported honestly → Regular.
- Forward-looking idea — a well-argued new direction not yet fully built or evaluated → Vision paper (short).
The theory-vs-systems test (the EDBT/ICDT boundary)
Because EDBT and ICDT share a conference and a proceedings platform, the sharpest routing mistake is sending a theory paper to EDBT (or an unbuilt systems idea to ICDT):
- If the core result is a theorem — a complexity bound, an expressiveness or decidability result, a query-language or constraint-theory contribution — it belongs at ICDT, not EDBT, even though they meet in the same week.
- If the core result is a built-and-measured system or a data-analysis study, it belongs at EDBT. Being able to co-present near the theory community is a benefit of EDBT, not a reason to submit theory to it.
The scale-and-community test (EDBT vs. the US flagships)
- Scale realism, not scale maximalism. EDBT values evaluations on realistic workloads and honest scope; a paper does not need US-flagship-scale infrastructure to be strong here, but its claims must match its evidence.
- Community pull. If your bibliography and closest prior work are European DB-systems papers and the near cycle fits, EDBT is a natural home; if the paper is in explicit dialogue with a SIGMOD/PVLDB line and aims at that audience, weigh the sibling.
Cheap reconnaissance before committing
[Scope] scan the last two EDBT programs (dblp, OpenProceedings) for your subarea
-> 3+ recent papers = a reviewer pool exists; 0 = opening or mismatch
[Boundary] is the core a theorem (-> ICDT) or a built/measured system-or-study (-> EDBT)?
[Citations] is your bibliography majority DB venues (SIGMOD/VLDB/ICDE/EDBT/ICDT)?
-> majority non-DB => reviewers read you as a visitor; naturalize the intro first
[Calendar] compare the next EDBT cycle with SIGMOD/PVLDB/ICDE dates -> route to the nearest
honest fit rather than idling
Decision procedure
[Audience] who acts differently if the claim holds? -> DB systems builders / practitioners / researchers?
[Claim type] system / scalable algorithm / experiments-&-analysis / applied experience / vision / theory
[Theory check] is the heart a theorem? -> route to ICDT
[EDBT vs US flagship] all fit? -> choose by open-access preference, cycle proximity, community pull
[Shape] Regular / Experiments-&-Analysis / Vision, matched to the contribution
[Verdict] EDBT (which shape, which cycle) / sibling venue / journal, with a one-line reason
Run this before the writing skills; a wrong venue or shape decision wastes every later step. When
the verdict is EDBT, continue with edbt-workflow for the cycle calendar and edbt-writing-style
for the paper shape.
Version History
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