Development of Collecting System of Information on Research and Education of Universities

Abstract

Many universities open various kinds of information such as syllabuses of courses, education programs, research projects and so on through their homepages. Information on the education and research is evaluated to be very important as a mean of information share and references for students, faculties and staffs of universities. But use of such information is very poor. To advance the use of the information, a crawling system of homepages of universities has been develop. In this paper, a new syllabuses crawling technology is proposed to solve the problem due to the difference of access method to syllabuses by universities. Also, a new information search technology is proposed to find out meaningful information is proposed. In addition, extracting and visualizing methods of knowledge in a syllabus is proposed. Further more, results of homepages crawling, knowledge extraction and visualization are described.