Salticus: guided crawling for personal digital libraries

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we describe Salticus, a web crawler that learns from us ers web browsing activity. Salticus enables users to build a personal digital library by collecting documents and generalizing over the user's choices.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.1 MODELS AND PRINCIPLES
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.5 On-line Information Services
          Subjects: Web-based services
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)
          Subjects: Interaction styles (e.g., commands, menus, forms, direct manipulation)
      H.5.3 Group and Organization Interfaces
          Subjects: Web-based interaction

Keywords:
business intelligence, crawling, document acquisition, personal digital library