Brian Kelly wrote:
> Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 09:48:05 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Brian Kelly <[log in to unmask]>
> To: MARTIN MELAUGH <[log in to unmask]>
> Cc: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: "scoop.bath"
> Reply-to: Brian Kelly <[log in to unmask]>
> The hits come from a robot developed by the WebWatch project. This is a
> BLRIC (British Library Research and Innovation Centre) funded project,
> based at UKOLN. The aim of the project is to develop and use robot
> software to analyse the use of web technologies within various UK
> communities. To date we have analysed UK Public Library websites and
> UK Universities and Colleges home pages.
>
> The most recent crawl has been over eLib projects.
>
> Further information about the project is available at the URL
> http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/webwatch/
>
> Articles on the initial two trawls are available at:
> http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/web-focus/webwatch/articles/
>
> Note that the WebWatch robot was originally based on the Harvest software,
> but is now a home-grown suite of Perl programs. It should not be
> regarded as a search engine as it discards the contents of web pages
> and stores HTML elements and their attributes.
Will the robot be able to analyse dynamically produced pages such as
those created by the EEVL database? http://www.eevl.ac.uk/search.html
Roddy MacLeod
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