TY - GEN
T1 - Harnessing search engine technology to raise awareness and availability of digital libraries
AU - Tov, Nir Yom
AU - Frank, Ariel J.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - Searching for information on the Web is easy. Finding high quality information is hard. This partially stems from prevalent use of Search Engines (SEs) for information seeking tasks, when, for appropriate tasks, wise use of relevant Digital Libraries (DLs) could provide high quality information. However, the awareness and discovery of DLs on the Web is still lacking. The solution proposed herein is of the SELFDL (SE Locator For DLs) model that is patterned after the popular Google style. Its task is to locate DLs, organize them in various knowledge structures, and provide a usable interface for locating relevant DLs. We describe the SELFDL framework that has three major components: directory, index and meta-search engine that are based on a common infrastructure. SELFDL's aim is to tilt the current balance of use between SEs and DLs in the direction of increased use of DLs, when that use is merited, hence increasing the qualitative use of the Web
AB - Searching for information on the Web is easy. Finding high quality information is hard. This partially stems from prevalent use of Search Engines (SEs) for information seeking tasks, when, for appropriate tasks, wise use of relevant Digital Libraries (DLs) could provide high quality information. However, the awareness and discovery of DLs on the Web is still lacking. The solution proposed herein is of the SELFDL (SE Locator For DLs) model that is patterned after the popular Google style. Its task is to locate DLs, organize them in various knowledge structures, and provide a usable interface for locating relevant DLs. We describe the SELFDL framework that has three major components: directory, index and meta-search engine that are based on a common infrastructure. SELFDL's aim is to tilt the current balance of use between SEs and DLs in the direction of increased use of DLs, when that use is merited, hence increasing the qualitative use of the Web
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=47849132228&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/itre.2006.381580
DO - 10.1109/itre.2006.381580
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AN - SCOPUS:47849132228
SN - 1424408598
SN - 9781424408597
T3 - ITRE 2006 - 4th International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education, Proceedings
SP - 266
EP - 270
BT - ITRE 2006 - 4th International Conference on Information Technology
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - ITRE 2006 - 4th International Conference on Information Technology: Research and Education
Y2 - 17 October 2006 through 18 October 2006
ER -