Papers from this Project

• Collection Synthesis, Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2002 (JCDL 2002), July 14-18, Portland, Oregon (best paper award). (postscript)
• Focused Crawling, Tunneling, and Digital Libraries , in European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL) 2002, Rome Italy, September 2002. ( postscript, pdf )
• Using High Performance Systems to Build Collections for a Digital Library, Workshop on Distributed Computing Architectures for Digital Libraries (DCADL), August 2002, Vancouver CA. (postscript)
• System flow chart for Collection Building
• A short descriptionof collection synthesis
• A Masters of Engineering project

Background Readings

• Background Readings on Automatic Collection Building, August, 2002 (pdf) (postscript).
• Another bibliography covering papers on focused crawling, by Peter Marendy, June 2001
• A shorter review by Francis Crimmins, September 2001

Sample Collections

• 10-item collections taken from a 5-hour crawl in mathematics, March 20 2002    March 25 2002
• 50-item collection taken from a 2-hour crawl in physics June 4 2002
• First 10 items from a 2-hour crawl in physics July 29, 2002. This summary is courtesy of the centrifuser project at Columbia U.