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WEBTOP Meta Search and P2P Knowledge Sharing. Kenn Min Chong Pooja Garg Sponsored By: David Wolber And Chris Brooks. What is webtop?. WEBTOP. Overview. Search Systems Today Webtop Overview Web Services and Common Search API
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WEBTOPMeta Search and P2P Knowledge Sharing Kenn Min Chong Pooja Garg Sponsored By: David Wolber And Chris Brooks
What is webtop? WEBTOP
Overview Search Systems Today Webtop Overview Web Services and Common Search API Personal Digital Libraries and Peer to Peer Demo Summary
Search Systems Today • Un-integrated Search Systems • Fixed List of Information Sources • No Document Asssociations
Search Systems Today • Un-integrated Search Systems • Fixed List of Sources • No Document Asssociations
Search Systems Today • Un-integrated Search Systems • Fixed List of Sources • No Document Associations
Associations In Documents • Outward Links • Content Links • Inward Links
Dynamic List Of Sources Webtop queries the UDDI for information sources Personal Digital Libraries External DigitalLibraries
Ways to get information from digital sources • Scrapers
Web Services • Remote procedure calls between computers. • Unlike previous RPC models (CORBA, RMI), data is formatted with XML tags and exchanged over HTTP. • Encoding of data is by using XML/SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) • UDDI (Universal Description, Discovery and Integration)-Yellow pages for web services
Common Search API • doKeywordSearch() • getInwardLinks() • getOutwardLinks() • getIconForSource() • getFileFromPersonalSource()
Personal Digital Libraries Why are we interested in personal digital libraries? Experts Collaborative Work How to make this task easy? • Write code for the user to become a web service. • Deploy a light weight server on the users machine to broadcast this information
Online/Offline Sources Dynamic IP Addresses? Computer on Stand By or Hibernation? People outside a firewall?
Summary Meta Search System Query multiple systems and get information from a dynamic list of sources. P2P Knowledge Sharing Share links and documents with colleagues. Multiple Association types Navigate through various types of associations. Zero Input Publishing Knowledge sharing made easy. Seamless Navigation From your personal web to the WWW to the personal web of other users
Links You can download our windows client from: http://webtop.cs.usfca.edu To register a information source, visit: http://webtop.cs.usfca.edu/CustomUDDI.aspx To see a web version of the client: http://webtop.cs.usfca.edu/WebTopClient.aspx
Thanks David Wolber and Chris Brooks Terence Parr Past Contributors: Iman Sadraddein Rudd Stevens Colin Bean Tim Chan Juliana Chan Senior Team Class ‘03 Igor Ranitovic Michael Kepe