This paper describes various aspects of web information management with particular emphasis on its application to electronic commerce. We first provide a brief overview of the web. Then we discuss concepts for web database management, as database management is a key part of information management. These include data models and architectures, query processing, transaction management, metadata management, storage issues, and integrity and security. Then we discuss various web information management technologies such as multimedia, visualization, data mining and warehousing, and knowledge management. Then we discuss emerging standards such as Java Database Connectivity, Extended Markup Language (XML), and middleware standards such as Object Request Brokers (ORB) and Remote Method Invocation (RMI). Finally we discuss how web data management technologies can be applied to the important area of electronic commerce.
