This book presents the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the International Workshop on the Web and Databases, WebDB'98, held in conjunction with EDBT'98 in Valencia, Spain, in March 1998.The 13 revised full papers presented were selected during two rounds of reviewing from initially 37 submissions. The book is divided into sections on Internet programming: tools and applications, integration and access to Web data, hypertext views on databases, and searching and mining the Web.