Open Hypermedia Systems Working Group

Auto-indexer of OHS space - Scenario

Preliminaries

Authors
Peter J. Nürnberg
U Aarhus, Denmark

Updates
Most recent: 15 June 1997 (initial version)


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Scenario Description

Background

There are many WWW search engines that work in the following way. Some automatic indexer program visits a WWW page and indexes its content against its URL. It then follows the links from that page to other pages, where it performs the same process. This obviously takes a long time, so it can't be done by hand. Some autonomous program, once started, must take care of traversing the WWW structure automatically.

Scenario

Homer wants to build a search engine that operates over the OHSWG data stored at his lab. To do this, he wants to construct a program that visits nodes, indexes their content versus their OHSWG name, and then traverses all links emanating from points in that node. The nodes at the ends of those links should be processed in this same way. He wants the program to operate without intervention on his part. There are several different OHSWG compliant link servers in his lab, built by different people on top of different OHS's.