Discovery agent of Vijjana, a pragmatic model for collaborative, self-organizing, domain centric knowledge networks
Rajesh. Makineni · 2010
With the evolution of the advanced web technologies, the World Wide Web is flooded with millions of giga bytes of information every day. In such a prodigious field of web along with its explosive growth, even the most successful search engines would fail to give the relevant results to the user based on the keyword based crawling algorithms they use. Even the next giant step in the web history which is adding the semantics to the web documents could not help the user in getting his desired results from the web. When users are given the chance to get closer to the people of their kind over the web through the so called social networking websites, they are lost in a vast collection of unorganized links without any domain specific taxonomy. In such a scenario, Vijjana [1] is designed to represent a collective knowledge network based on classification and analysis. Vijjana provides a frame work designed for building collaborative knowledge networks that are domain specific and well bound in search categories. In this report, we explain the Discovery Agent of Vijjana that creates a User Interface to the Vijjana network. The User Interface is designed in the form of a Mozilla Firefox extension which, when installed on the user’s browser becomes a toolbar with various functionalities that access several agents of the Vijjana architecture. Through this interface, user is given the facility to directly transfer an interesting link, while browsing the web, to the Vijjana network for better organization. While doing this, the bookmarking service extracts the meta-data from the web page and stores it in vijjana database along with the saved URL. Another service namely the Search agent performs the search process in the Vijjana network and brings the URLs saved in different domains of Vijjana based on the input keyword given by the user. We also define a conceptual way of exporting the bookmarks stored in the Firefox browser to the Vijjana database on a single click through a well developed user interface exporting service using the Object Relational Mapping provided by the Hibernate framework.