Web-DL: An Experience on Making Digital Libraries from the Web

The Web contains a huge volume of information, all of it largely unstructured and, therefore, dicult to manage. Most access to Web information is done through search engines, which make no assumptions about users tasks or their speci c information needs. In Digital Libraries, however, information is explicitly organized, described, and managed and community-oriented services are built to attend speci c information needs and tasks. In this paper, we propose an architecture that allows the construction of digital libraries from the Web. Standard protocols and archival technologies enable open, organized, and structured access to several heterogeneous and distributed digital libraries. Incorporation of powerful digital library and data extraction tools provide information-seeking services, content structuring and integration