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- Objective: Personalizing the Web-Content.
If you are interested to implement a prototype for this solution please
Contact Me
- People involved so far:
- Shashank Khanvilkar [Email]
- Background:
This is very annoying problem that i have been facing during my research and I am wondering why
anyone has not thought of any good simple solution for this.
Suppose that you are using a site like IEEEXplore
and you put in any query,say "VPN", which gives a number of papers that are related to VPN.
Since i am interested to do research on VPN, I have to read most of this papers. However I also need to have a
system that will allow me to annotate the paper (write down pros and cons).
Currently, I can only do this by maintaining a personal log somewhere or printing the paper and writing on it.
The drawback to the above approach is that whenever the same paper is displayed in response to some other query,
I have to search through my stacks to even know what the paper was all about.
- What I really want:
What i want is a system that works like this.
Consider the example of the results of the query that are displayed in the below image.
Notice the Post-it-like notes that I have pasted for paper #1 (Virtual private Network) and
#2 (Lightweight, dynamic and programmable virtual private networks).
Now once these notes have been assigned to each of these papers, they will be stored on my computer.
If any of the papers (#1 or #2) appears in response to any other queries, then these notes should be automatically
displayed as shown below: (Note: Paper #2 appears in this query)
- How can this system be realized:
Here is a simple idea that i think will make the system work. I think we will need a new html tag
<WEB-ID> and </WEB-ID>. Every paper is identified by a unique tag called
WEB-ID, which may very well be the MD5 (or any such checksum) for that paper. This tag need not be globally
unique but it is necessary to be locally unique for a site. The IEEEXplore site should also send this new tag
with every paper that appears in the query. For example,
1 <font>Virtual private networks</font><br>
<font size=2><i>Venkateswaran, R.;</i><br>
Potentials, IEEE;Volume: 20, Issue: 1;Feb-March 2001
<br>
Pages:11-15<br><br>
<A href='...'>[Abstract]</A>
<A href='...'>[PDF Full-Text (392 KB)]</A>;
Now the web-browser has to be modified to recognize this tag. It should allow the user to put a note for every paper that is taggable. A plugin can be developed for a browser such as firefox.
If the user wants to put a comment, he can add the tag, which is saved under a readily indentifiable name such as:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMN.ieeexplore.ieee.org
in some local directory or local database.
Thus whenever the web-browser gets this tag, it will look into this database and if any such info exists, it will
display it as a post it note. Voila!! our problem is solved.
- Things done so far:
- [03/10/05] Problem formulated.
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