Transcript Ph.D. Progress Report

Ph.D. Progress
Report
Frank McCown
4/14/05
Timeline
Year 1 : Course work and Diagnostic Exam
Year 2 : Course work and Candidacy Exam
Year 3 : Write and defend dissertation
Possible topic: A framework for interface
servers providing access to web
content
Research
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Completed
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NSDL vs. Google
In Progress
PayGent
 “Lazy” Preservation
 OAI-PMH Coverage
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NSDL vs. Google
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Participants: F. McCown, J. Bollen, M. L. Nelson
Paper submitted to ECDL 2005
The Entire Web
Useful K-12
Educational
Content
Google’s
Searchable
Content
NSDL
Content
NSDL vs. Google
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Experiment using 11 volunteer Virginia school
teachers
Search for key terms from Virginia Standards of
Learning with NSDL and Google
Which results were more relevant (educationally
useful)?
PayGent
Participants: F. McCown, D. Morales,
S. Olariu
 A new framework for easy to use and
secure on-line purchasing using
mobile devices
 Goal: Publication and book chapter
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“Lazy” Preservation
Participants: F. McCown, J. Smith, M.
L. Nelson, J. Bollen
 What if you were lazy and didn’t back
up your web site?
 How much of your web site could we
reconstruct using caching services
(Google, Yahoo, MSN) and archives
(Internet Archive)?
 Goal: Publication in the summer
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OAI-PMH Coverage
Participants: F. McCown, M. L.
Nelson, X. Liu, M. Zubair, K. Maly
 OAI-PMH is exposing millions of
records
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How many are indexed by Google?
How were they found?
Is OAI-PMH exposing the “deep” web?
Goal: Publication in the summer