The application of user log for online business environment using content-based Image retrieval system

Over the past few years, inter-query learning has gained much attention in the research and development of content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems. This is largely due to the capability of inter-query approach to enable learning from the retrieval patterns of previous query sessions. However, much of the research works in this field have been focusing on analyzing image retrieval patterns stored in the database. This is not suitable for a dynamic environment such as the World Wide Web (WWW) where images are constantly added or removed. A better alternative is to use an image's visual features to capture the knowledge gained from the previous query sessions. Based on the previous work (Chung et al., 2006), the aim of this paper is to propose a framework of inter-query learning for the WWW-CBIR systems. Such framework can be extremely useful for those online companies whose core business involves providing multimedia content-based services and products to their customers

Assessing the impact of user interaction with thesaural knowledge structures: a quantitative analysis framework

Thesauri have been important information and knowledge organisation tools for more than three decades. The recent emergence and phenomenal growth of the World Wide Web has created new opportunities to introduce thesauri as information search and retrieval aids to end user communities. While the number of web-based and hypertextual thesauri continues to grow, few investigations have yet been carried out to evaluate how end-users, for whom all these efforts are ostensibly made, interact with and make use of thesauri for query building and expansion. The present paper reports a pilot study carried out to determine the extent to which a thesaurus-enhanced search interface to a web-based database aided end-users in their selection of search terms. The study also investigated the ways in which users interacted with the thesaurus structure, terms, and interface. Thesaurus-based searching and browsing behaviours adopted by users while interacting with the thesaurus-enhanced search interface were also examined

Web Data Mining: A Case Study

With an enormous amount of data stored in databases and data warehouses, it is increasingly important to develop powerful tools for analysis of such data and mining interesting knowledge from it. Data mining is a process of inferring knowledge from such huge data. The main problem related to the retrieval of information from the World Wide Web is the enormous number of unstructured documents and resources, i.e., the difficulty of locating and tracking appropriate sources. In this article, a survey of the research in the area of web mining and suggest web mining categories and techniques. Furthermore, a presentation of a web mining environment generator that allows naive users to generate a web mining environment specific to a given domain by providing a set of specification

Islamic Economy thru Online Community Implementing Information Retrieval Capabilities

Knowledge Management has become more of a concern by the community around the world. Communities are more aware and concern of the sharing and transfer the knowledge. The rapid development of Web technology has made the World Wide Web an important and popular application platform for disseminating and searching for information as well as conducting business. As a huge information source, World Wide Web has allowed unprecedented sharing of ideas and information on a scale never seen before. The use of the Web and its exponential growth are now well known, and they are causing a revolution in the way people use computers and perform daily tasks. Islamic Economy thru Online Community - Implementing Information Retrieval Capabilities is discussed more advanced way by using the technology to motivate and encourage community to the knowledge sharing and transfer. The purpose of the web is to develop a platform that community can improve the economic growth and make their knowledge more effectively and facilitating circulation of community knowledge and collects community members' opinions as well. The target users of this website are consumers and business person. In developing the project, the methodology comprises of system conceptualization, system analysis, system design, system development and lastly system testing. The tools used are Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004, Joomla Open Source, APACHE Web Server and mySQL. The website focuses on the economic growth for consumer and business person, so that community can make a right decision in such situation. It allows users to search the needed information on the specific area and allows users to store their information as well, so that the community can share their knowledge and experience with others

Netcitizens: information hunters and gatherers

This study explores the possibilities of utilising the World Wide Web, by way of the Internet, to benefit learners in the creation of knowledge. It examines way and means of gathering and collating productive resources in order to enrich learner understanding and interpretation of Information Technology as such. There are several phases to this study. There is a review of the history of the World Wide Web (WWW); an account of the structure of the study, known as the Web Inquiry Project (WIP); a review of information retrieval mechanisms; observations of student teachers in the context of their own understanding of the WWW and their appraisals of its worth as learning tool; studies in their subsequent tutoring of a cohort of elementary school students, their individual and collective observations, findings and resources constructed on their individually created web pages. All of this to be achieved in the spirit of collaborative learning. It is a narrative account of the journeyings of all the participants through the Information Superhighway and an account of the outcomes of this exploratory study and the methodology for achieving best practices in information gathering and its utility in the interest of knowledge creation in this electronic age

VisualNet: Commonsense knowledgebase for video and image indexing and retrieval application

The rapidly increasing amount of video collections, available on the web or via broadcasting, motivated research towards building intelligent tools for searching, rating, indexing and retrieval purposes. Establishing a semantic representation of visual data, mainly in textual form, is one of the important tasks. The time needed for building and maintaining Ontologies and knowledge, especially for wide domain, and the efforts for integrating several approaches emphasize the need for unified generic commonsense knowledgebase for visual applications. In this paper, we propose a novel commonsense knowledgebase that forms the link between the visual world and its semantic textual representation. We refer to it as "VisualNet". VisualNet is obtained by our fully automated engine that constructs a new unified structure concluding the knowledge from two commonsense knowledgebases, namely WordNet and ConceptNet. This knowledge is extracted by performing analysis operations on WordNet and ConceptNet contents, and then only useful knowledge in visual domain applications is considered. Moreover, this automatic engine enables this knowledgebase to be developed, updated and maintained automatically, synchronized with any future enhancement on WordNet or ConceptNet. Statistical properties of the proposed knowledgebase, in addition to an evaluation of a sample application results, show coherency and effectiveness of the proposed knowledgebase and its automatic engine

Role of Librarian in Internet and World Wide Web Environment

The transition of traditional library collections to digital or virtual collections presented the librarian with new opportunities. The Internet, Web environment and associated sophisticated tools have given the librarian a new dynamic role to play and serve the new information based society in better ways than hitherto. Because of the powerful features of Web i.e. distributed, heterogeneous, collaborative, multimedia, multi-protocol, hypermedia- oriented architecture, World Wide Web has revolutionized the way people access information, and has opened up new possibilities in areas such as digital libraries, virtual libraries, scientific information retrieval and dissemination. Not only the world is becoming interconnected, but also the use of Internet and Web has changed the fundamental roles, paradigms, and organizational culture of libraries and librarians as well. The article describes the limitless scope of Internet and Web, the existence of the librarian in the changing environment, parallelism between information science and information technology, librarians and intelligent agents, working of intelligent agents, strengths, weaknesses, threats and opportunities involved in the relationship between librarians and the Web. The role of librarian in Internet and Web environment especially as intermediary, facilitator, end-user trainer, Web site builder, researcher, interface designer, knowledge manager and sifter of information resources is also described

Classification on the Web: an analysis of Dewey Linked Data

With the availability of information in the World Wide Web its access and retrieval by the users is facilitated, and the Libraryand Information Science (LIS) field’s knowledge and techniques can be applied to this environment in order to help with theprocess. e present study is descriptive, qualitative and exploratory, based on bibliographical sources, in which it was exploredhow the Classification discipline interacts with Linked Data, focusing on the analysis of Dewey Linked Data. From four catalogsanalyzed, referred to in the literature as adhering to Dewey Linked Data, only two actually has links in their records redirectingto the system. Despite this, its presence in e Linked Open Data Cloud appears as a positive factor in its dissemination, since itboosts its visibility. It is concluded that the Classification discipline allows the thematic standardization of information resources,so that there is uniformity in the Web environment and quality retrieval of information, while promoting interoperability betweendata in the Linked Data context. e standardization of metadata values using classifications optimizes the representation ofinformation and its retrieval in the Web, while also providing the reuse of data. In addition, studies that align the area of Library andInformation Science with the Semantic Web and its technologies can provide new perspectives for the area, as well as contemplatethe users’ always changing needs, thus, fulfilling the objective of the field