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2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Geographically focused collaborative crawling
A collaborative crawler is a group of crawling nodes, in which each crawling node is responsible for a specific portion of the web. We study the problem of collecting geographical...
Weizheng Gao, Hyun Chul Lee, Yingbo Miao
WEBDB
2005
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Design and Implementation of a Geographic Search Engine
In this paper, we describe the design and initial implementation of a geographic search engine prototype for Germany, based on a large crawl of the de domain. Geographic search en...
Alexander Markowetz, Yen-Yu Chen, Torsten Suel, Xi...
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Eliciting and focusing geographic volunteer work
Open content communities such as wikis derive their value from the work done by users. However, a key challenge is to elicit work that is sufficient and focused where needed. We ...
Reid Priedhorsky, Mikhil Masli, Loren G. Terveen
OZCHI
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Saxaren: strengthening informal collaboration among geographically distributed teachers
For people working in situations with few colleagues around, information technology could be used for increased communication with colleagues at other places. One such group is te...
Kristina Groth, Sinna Lindquist, Cristian Bogdan, ...
ICADL
2004
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
Supporting Field Study with Personalized Project Spaces in a Geographical Digital Library
Digital libraries have been rather successful in supporting learning activities by providing learners with access to information and knowledge. However, this level of support is pa...
Ee-Peng Lim, Aixin Sun, Zehua Liu, John G. Hedberg...