Spiders "R" Us Digital Library Toolkit

spiders r us digital library toolkit

The AI Lab SpidersRUs Digital Library Toolkit is designed to provide modular tools for different types of functions (e.g., spidering, indexing, searching) for building digital libraries in different languagues in a simple DIY (Do-It-Yourself) way. The toolkit works with the Java 2 Platform J2SE 1.4.0 or later versions.

SpidersRUs is developed by the Artificial Intelligence Lab, a research group in the Department of Management Information Systems at the University of Arizona.

Download the software

SpidersRUs 2.2 (Setup files for Windows) - 1.0 MB
SpidersRUs 2.2 (jar file and configuration files only) - 264 KB (When extracting the files, you will need to use the subfolder names given in the zip file.) Example of running the jar file from command line:
java -Xmx512m -jar SpidersRUs.jar
Please make sure that you have Java 2 Platform J2SE 1.4.0 or later versions installed on your computer. Download the latest Java 2 Platform from here.

Download the user manual

SpidersRUs 2.1-beta user manual - 2.80 MB
The SpidersRUs 2.2 user manual will be available soon!

Developers

Michael Chau (mchau@business.hku.hk)
Chunju Tseng
Jialun Qin
Yilu Zhou
Chia-Jung Hsu

Advisor
Hsinchun Chen (hchen@eller.arizona.edu)

Websites
Project Website

Publication:
Chau, M., Qin, J., Zhou, Y., Tseng, C., and Chen, H., "SpidersRUs:
Automated Development of Vertical Search Engines in Different Domains and
Languages," in Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital
Libraries (JCDL'05), Denver, Colorado, USA, June 7-11, 2005.

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