The Harvest information discovery and access system
Computer Networks and ISDN Systems
Pan-browser support for annotations and other meta-information on the World Wide Web
Proceedings of the fifth international World Wide Web conference on Computer networks and ISDN systems
HyPursuit: a hierarchical network search engine that exploits content-link hypertext clustering
Proceedings of the the seventh ACM conference on Hypertext
The limits of Web metadata, and beyond
WWW7 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web 7
Information Retrieval
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This paper shows a new concept of a virtual WWW document (VWD), as a set of WWW pages representing a logical information space, generally dealing with one particular domain. The VWD is described using metadata in the XML syntax and will be accessed through a metadata.class file, stored at the root level of WWW sites. We'll suggest how the VWD can improve information retrieval on the WWW and reduce the network load generated by the robots. We describe a prototype implemented in JAVA, within an application in the environmental domain. The exchanges of such metadata lay in a flexible architecture based on two kinds of robots : generalists and specialists that collect and organize this metadata, in order to localize the resources on the WWW. They will contribute to the overall auto-organizing information process by exchanging their indices, therefore forwarding their knowledge each other.