Tracing agents and other automatic sampling procedures for the World Wide Web

Aguillo, Isidro F. Tracing agents and other automatic sampling procedures for the World Wide Web., 1999 . In 7th International Conference of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics, Colima (Mexico), 5-8th July 1999. (Unpublished) [Presentation]

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Many of the search engines and recovery tools are not suitable to make samples of web resources for quantitative analysis. The increasing size of the web and its hypertextual nature offer opportunities for a novel approach. A new generation of recovering tools involving tracing hypertext links from selected sites are very promising. Offering capabilities to automate tasks Extracting large samples of high pertinence Ready to use in standard database formats Selecting additional resources by indirect recovery via hypertext links.

Item type:	Presentation
Keywords:	tracing agents, web, webometric, automatic data collection
Subjects:	B. Information use and sociology of information > BB. Bibliometric methods L. Information technology and library technology > LP. Intelligent agents. L. Information technology and library technology > LS. Search engines. L. Information technology and library technology > LC. Internet, including WWW.
Depositing user:	Isidro F. Aguillo
Date deposited:	21 Dec 2006
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:05
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/8670

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