Data collection system for link analysis

Author

Yang, Bo ; Qin, Jian

Author_Institution

Chinese Acad. of Sci., Beijing

fYear

2008

fDate

13-16 Nov. 2008

Firstpage

247

Lastpage

252

Abstract

The study presented in this paper exploited several possible ways to meet the needs of link analysis in Webometrics and developed a prototype (LinkDiscoverer) that collects data from both real-time links and search engines. The prototype consists of two parts: a crawling part for collecting real-time link data from a given domain or site and a search engine part for harvesting link data from search engines by using specific search commands. An experiment was conducted to evaluate the performance of LinkDiscoverer on link analysis. The results show that the LinkDiscovererpsilas functions can well satisfy the needs for link analysis. This study contributes to data collection methods and selection strategy in Webometrics.

Keywords

data handling; search engines; LinkDiscoverer; Webometrics; data collection system; link analysis; real-time link data; search engines; Crawlers; Data analysis; Electronic mail; Information analysis; Internet; Libraries; Prototypes; Search engines; Software tools; Web pages; Web crawler; Webometrics; data collection; link analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Information Management, 2008. ICDIM 2008. Third International Conference on

Conference_Location

London

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2916-5

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2917-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDIM.2008.4746781

Filename

4746781