This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 24th British National Conference on Databases, BNCOD 24, held in Glasgow, UK, in July 2007.

The 18 revised full papers and 7 revised poster papers presented together with 2 invited contributions were carefully reviewed and selected from 56 submissions. The papers are ogranized in topical sections on data applications, searching XML documents, querying XML documents, XML transformation, clustering and security, data mining and extraction.