Towards more personalized web: extraction and integration of dynamic content from the web

  • Authors:

  • Marek Kowalkiewicz;Maria E. Orlowska;Tomasz Kaczmarek;Witold Abramowicz

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Management Information Systems, Poznan University of Economics, Poznan, Poland;School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, The University of Queensland, QLD, Australia;Department of Management Information Systems, Poznan University of Economics, Poznan, Poland;Department of Management Information Systems, Poznan University of Economics, Poznan, Poland

  • Venue:
  • APWeb'06 Proceedings of the 8th Asia-Pacific Web conference on Frontiers of WWW Research and Development
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Information and content integration are believed to be a possible solution to the problem of information overload in the Internet. The article is an overview of a simple solution for integration of information and content on the Web. Previous approaches to content extraction and integration are discussed, followed by introduction of a novel technology to deal with the problems, based on XML processing. The article includes lessons learned from solving issues of changing webpage layout, incompatibility with HTML standards and multiplicity of the results returned. The method adopting relative XPath queries over DOM tree proves to be more robust than previous approaches to Web information integration. Furthermore, the prototype implementation demonstrates the simplicity that enables non-professional users to easily adopt this approach in their day-to-day information management routines.