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https://hdl.handle.net/10216/621| Author(s): | Filipe Silva Armando Oliveira Lígia M. Ribeiro Gabriel David |
| Title: | Searching dynamic Web pages with semi-structured contents |
| Issue Date: | 2003 |
| Abstract: | At present, information systems (IS) in higher education are usually supported by databases (DB) and accessed through a Web interface. So happens with SiFEUP, the IS of the Engineering Faculty of the University of Porto (FEUP). The typical SiFEUP user sees the system as a collection of Web pages and is not aware of the fact that most of them do not exist in the sense of being an actual HTML file stored in a server but corresponds to HTML code generated on the fly by a designated program that accesses the DB and brings the most up-to-date information to the user desktop. Typical search engines do not index dynamically generated Web pages or just do that for those that are specifically mentioned in a static page and do not follow on the links the dynamic page may contain. In this paper we describe the development of a search facility for SiFEUP, how the limitations put to indexing dynamic Web pages were circumvented, and an evaluation of the results obtained. The solution involves using a locally developed crawler, the Oracle Text full text indexer, plus meta-information automatically drawn from the DB or manually added to improve the relevance factor calculation. |
| Description: | At present, information systems (IS) in higher education are usually supported by databases (DB) and accessed through a Web interface. So happens with SiFEUP, the IS of the Engineering Faculty of the University of Porto (FEUP). The typical SiFEUP user sees the system as a collection of Web pages and is not aware of the fact that most of them do not exist in the sense of being an actual HTML file stored in a server but corresponds to HTML code generated on the fly by a designated program that accesses the DB and brings the most up-to-date information to the user desktop. Typical search engines do not index dynamically generated Web pages or just do that for those that are specifically mentioned in a static page and do not follow on the links the dynamic page may contain. In this paper we describe the development of a search facility for SiFEUP, how the limitations put to indexing dynamic Web pages were circumvented, and an evaluation of the results obtained. The solution involves using a locally developed crawler, the Oracle Text full text indexer, plus meta-information automatically drawn from the DB or manually added to improve the relevance factor calculation. |
| Subject: | Engenharia electrotécnica, electrónica e informática Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering |
| Scientific areas: | Ciências da engenharia e tecnologias::Engenharia electrotécnica, electrónica e informática Engineering and technology::Electrical engineering, Electronic engineering, Information engineering |
| URI: | https://repositorio-aberto.up.pt/handle/10216/621 |
| Source: | EUNIS 03 European University Information Systems |
| Document Type: | Artigo em Livro de Atas de Conferência Internacional |
| Rights: | openAccess |
| License: | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ |
| Appears in Collections: | FEUP - Artigo em Livro de Atas de Conferência Internacional |
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