Third International World-Wide Web Conference

Workshop A: Web-wide Indexing/
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Co-Chairs: Bipin C. Desai, Brian Pinkerton
Workshop runs from 09:30 to 13:00 0935 - 0950 Introduction Who: Desai, Pinkerton Isssues: Describe basic NIDR problem State of the art Workshop format 0950 - 1035 Panel 1: Semantic Header: (Chair: Pinkerton) Who: Desai, Duda, Leavitt... Focus: Including semantic information in HTML Issues: What meta-data might users want? How might it get there? ... 1040 - 1125 Panel 2: Cooperation among web-wide indexes: motivations (Chair: Desai) Who: Eichmann, Koster, Mauldin, Pinkerton, Post, ? Issues: How to cooperate: - share indexing data? - Develop a common query interface? State assumptions we need to make - will businesses not want to? - more is better? - IR independent? What do we hope to accomplish by such cooperation: - lower load on net? - better user experience? - more up-to-date indexes? 1125 - 1135 Break 1140 - 1225 Panel 3: Cooperation among web-wide indexes: details (Chair: Desai) Who: Eichmann, Koster, Mauldin, Pinkerton, Post, ? Issues: What guiding philosophy: - Monolithic index, multiple providers? - Distributed index: geographicly, topically? Is Harvest sufficient? What's a good summary format? How does the format impact different kinds of IR? Do summaries impact the searches that people do? Do we decide up front how to carve up the world? If topical distribution, how does meta-search work? 1230 - 1300 Futures: (Chair: Desai, Pinkerton) what's coming, and some outrageous opinions Who: nearly anyone! OR General discussion