webtop meta search and p2p knowledge sharing
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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 - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
WEBTOPWEBTOPMeta Search and P2P Knowledge SharingMeta Search and P2P Knowledge Sharing
Kenn Min ChongKenn Min Chong
Pooja GargPooja Garg
Sponsored By:Sponsored By:
David Wolber And Chris BrooksDavid Wolber And Chris Brooks
What is webtop?
WEBTOP
Search Systems TodaySearch Systems Today
Webtop OverviewWebtop Overview
Web Services and Common Search APIWeb Services and Common Search API
Personal Digital Libraries and Peer to PeerPersonal Digital Libraries and Peer to Peer
DemoDemo
SummarySummary
Overview
Search Systems Today
Un-integrated Search Systems
Fixed List of Information Sources
No Document Asssociations
Un-integrated Search Engines
Search Systems Today
Un-integrated Search Systems
Fixed List of Sources
No Document Asssociations
Other meta search systems
Search Systems Today
Un-integrated Search Systems
Fixed List of Sources
No Document Associations
Associations In Documents
• Outward Links
• Content Links
• Inward Links
Content Links
Inward Links
Webtop Features
Keyword Search on Different Information Sources
Associations in Webtop
Dynamic List Of Sources
Webtop queries the UDDI for information sources
Personal Digital Libraries External Digital Libraries
How to contact these information sources?
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()
Register Web Service For Webtop
Dynamic List of Sources
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
Navigating through Personal digital libraries
Online/Offline Sources
Dynamic IP Addresses?
Computer on Stand By or Hibernation?
People outside a firewall?
Demo
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