WWW94: second day: "data retrieval and indexing, WWW applications"

sessions about indexing

• GENVL and WWWW: tools for taming the web
  two tools to gather information about the vast amount of information on the web were presented: "virtual libraries" and the "WWW Worm".

• ALIWEB - archie-like indexing in the web
  ALIWEB is another approach to collect information about all the data available on the web and to generate an useful index for efficient data retrieval.

• what can archives offer to the web
  the author of this paper discussed an approach to reduce network traffic for the web similar to archive for ftp.

• the RBSE spider
  the RBSE spider is a mechanism for exploring the web and saving useful information into an oracle database.

• free text searches in the web
  while the above mentioned papers discussed several approaches to index documents by following and grouping their links, this speech presented a way to search the whole document for any particular text.

• towards better integration of dynamic search technology and the web
  the author presented an approach to include natural language processing (NLP) into the web to allow the reader to find the information she or he is looking for more easily.

• welcome to MOMspider's web
  this was a presentation of a very useful tool. it helps a WebMaster to maintain her or his information by checking the validity of the links in all documents.

to be honest, i found all the above sessions addressed more or less the same problems. even though the individual talks were interesting and presented important ideas, at a certain point i could not hear the word "index" anymore and i spent an hour in front of one of the machines reading mails ...

sessions about WWW applications

• what is WWW ?
  a very basic introduction to the features of the web.

• DEC's WWW server, a case study
  digital equipment corporation was one of the first large companies that offered its services to customers using the web. the paper addressed the organization, structure, evolution and management of the information.

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