USC/ISI
6 June 2001

WebScripter

Pedro Szekely, Bob Neches, Martin Frank, Baoshi Yan, Juan Lopez
Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California

Enable ordinary users to easily and quickly assemble reports
extracting and fusing information
from multiple, heterogeneous web sources


Demos


Example WebScripter Report


http://www.isi.edu/webscripter/daml-personnel.gen.html

WebScripter capabilities:

  • Pull information from multiple sources
  • Keep reports up to date
  • Record and credit information sources
  • Show gaps in the available information
  • Reconcile equivalent mark-up/representations

Reconciling Multiple Ontologies


http://www.isi.edu/webscripter/daml-personnel3.gen.html

Reports add value by integrating multiple sources,
and capturing implicit data relationships:

  • Build new ontologies that capture equivalencies between old ones
  • Clean up retrieved information
  • Publish reports as new data sources
    (consumers can become producers)
  • Keep audit trails to identify, credit sources
  • Opportunity for producers to discover consumers' needs

Publishing Customized Reports


http://www.isi.edu/divisions/div2/index.html

Support for publishing reports as useful, readable new documents:

  • WebScripter provides default table view of reports
  • Customize appearance via XSLT stylesheets

Editable Reports


http://aquinas.isi.edu/webscripter/ws?reportURL=http://www.isi.edu/~szekely/snapiam/...

Enable groups to collaboratively add and modify report content:

  • Context-dependent forms enable translating user-supplied information into DAML
  • In-line editing of WebScripter reports: users don't worry about underlying DAML

Summary


USC/ISI
6 June 2001