Investigation of Automated Population and Maintenance of a Resource Database using Web-based Screen Scraping and Web Services
Subalekha Udayasankar · OhioLink ETD Center (Ohio Library and Information Network) · 2007
Investigation of Automated Population and Maintenance of a Resource Database using Web-based Screen Scraping and Web Services By Subalekha Udayasankar The World Wide Web (WWW) is a vast collection of files accessible to the public primarily through hyper-linked files called Web pages.Increasingly, people turn to the Web to locate suppliers, products and services.The Community Disaster Information System (CDIS), developed by Miami University for the American Red Cross, provides Red Cross workers with a database of suppliers of products and services for disaster response.Currently, Red Cross Workers populate and maintain the CDIS database through manual data entry.The Web can be