Alexander Faaborg
Faculty Advisor: Carl Lagoze
The semantic browsing project aims to improve web usability by employing a software agent to browse ahead of the user and automatically generate Resource Definition Framework (RDF) metadata about the site the user is viewing. This metadata is used by the Web Task Pane, a new explorer bar created for Internet Explorer, to provide the user with contextually relevant tasks.
Research topics
include producing a methodology for explaining Web usability by
understanding the way users internally represent information organized
into a graph structure like the Web, and understanding what motivates
their navigation decisions. I also hope to demonstrate how RDF metadata
serialized in XML can be used to symbolize important semantic information
about digital resources and their properties. I am jointly writing a paper
with Carl Lagoze to submit to the European Conference on Research and
Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries (ECDL 2003).
Please
email me at ajf15@cornell.edu if
you would like access to the source code.
