Supporting end-users in the creation of dependable web clips

Web authoring environments enable end-users to create applications that integrate information from other web sources. Users can create web sites that include built-in components to dynamically incorporate, for example, weather information, stock-quotes, or the latest news from different web sources. Recent surveys conducted among end-users have indicated an increasing interest in creating such applications. Unfortunately, web authoring environments do not provide support beyond a limited set of built-in components. This work addresses this limitation by providing end-user support for "clipping" information from a target web site to incorporate it into the end-user site. The support consists of a mechanism to identify the target clipping with multiple markers to increase robustness, and a dynamic assessment of the retrieved information to quantify its reliability. The clipping approach has been integrated as a feature into a popular web authoring tool on which we present the ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: WWW
• Authors: Sandeep Lingam, Sebastian G. Elbaum
• Keywords: Environments Enable End-users, Internet Technology, Web Authoring Environments, Web Authoring Tool, WWW 2007