  The database research community is rightly proud of success in basic
research, and its remarkable record of technology transfer. Now the field needs
to radically broaden its research focus to attack the issues of capturing,
storing, analyzing, and presenting the vast array of online data. The database
research community should embrace a broader research agenda -- broadening the
definition of database management to embrace all the content of the Web and
other online data stores, and rethinking our fundamental assumptions in light
of technology shifts. To accelerate this transition, we recommend changing the
way research results are evaluated and presented. In particular, we advocate
encouraging more speculative and long-range work, moving conferences to a
poster format, and publishing all research literature on the Web.
