Title :
Dyniqx: A novel meta-search engine for metadata based cross search
Author :
Zhu, Jianhan ; Song, Dawei ; Eisenstadt, Marc ; Barladeanu, Cristi ; Rüger, Stefan
Author_Institution :
Knowledge Media Inst., Open Univ., Milton Keynes
Abstract :
The effect of metadata in collection fusion has not been sufficiently studied. In response to this, we present a novel meta-search engine called Dyniqx for metadata based cross search. Dyniqx exploits the availability of metadata in academic search services such as PubMed and Google Scholar etc for fusing search results from heterogeneous search engines. In addition, metadata from these search engines are used for generating dynamic query controls such as sliders and tick boxes etc which are used by users to filter search results. Our preliminary user evaluation shows that Dyniqx can help users complete information search tasks more efficiently and successfully than three well known search engines respectively.
Keywords :
meta data; search engines; Dyniqx; dynamic query controls; meta search engine; metadata based cross search; Availability; Context-aware services; Databases; Filters; Fusion power generation; Indexing; Large-scale systems; Libraries; Metasearch; Search engines;
Conference_Titel :
Applications of Digital Information and Web Technologies, 2008. ICADIWT 2008. First International Conference on the
Conference_Location :
Ostrava
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2623-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2624-9
DOI :
10.1109/ICADIWT.2008.4664345
