Implementation of an on-site web multimedia collector

✍ Scribed by J.S Jin; R Kurniawati

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 354 KB
• Volume: 24
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0140-3664
• DOI: 10.1016/s0140-3664(00)00279-6

✦ Synopsis

The object collector is an important component in a Web search engine. A collector collects Web objects (text, image, video, etc.), extracts their features and builds an index ®le for the search engine. Sending each object to the collector is almost always the worst option with respect to resource usage. An alternative is to send a collector to the source site, which has an advantage of distributing computational load and performing summarisation and compression. In an early paper, we proposed a lightweight collector for distributed object cataloguing over the World Wide Web. This paper discuss the issues of design and implementation. We provide a prototype and the Java class descriptions. We also present the performance of the prototype.