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Ph.D. Progress Report

Ph.D. Progress Report. Frank McCown 4/14/05. Timeline. Year 1 : Course work and Diagnostic Exam Year 2 : Course work and Candidacy Exam Year 3 : Write and defend dissertation Possible topic: A framework for interface servers providing access to web content. Research. Completed

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Ph.D. Progress Report

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  1. Ph.D. Progress Report Frank McCown 4/14/05

  2. Timeline Year 1 : Course work and Diagnostic Exam Year 2 : Course work and Candidacy Exam Year 3 : Write and defend dissertation Possible topic: A framework for interface servers providing access to web content

  3. Research • Completed • NSDL vs. Google • In Progress • PayGent • “Lazy” Preservation • OAI-PMH Coverage

  4. The Entire Web Useful K-12 Educational Content Google’sSearchableContent NSDL Content NSDL vs. Google • Participants: F. McCown, J. Bollen, M. L. Nelson • Paper submitted to ECDL 2005

  5. NSDL vs. Google • Experiment using 11 volunteer Virginia school teachers • Search for key terms from Virginia Standards of Learning with NSDL and Google • Which results were more relevant (educationally useful)?

  6. PayGent • Participants: F. McCown, D. Morales, S. Olariu • A new framework for easy to use and secure on-line purchasing using mobile devices • Goal: Publication and book chapter

  7. “Lazy” Preservation • Participants: F. McCown, J. Smith, M. L. Nelson, J. Bollen • What if you were lazy and didn’t back up your web site? • How much of your web site could we reconstruct using caching services (Google, Yahoo, MSN) and archives (Internet Archive)? • Goal: Publication in the summer

  8. OAI-PMH Coverage • Participants: F. McCown, M. L. Nelson, X. Liu, M. Zubair, K. Maly • OAI-PMH is exposing millions of records • How many are indexed by Google? • How were they found? • Is OAI-PMH exposing the “deep” web? • Goal: Publication in the summer

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