The WebWatch Project

About WebWatch

• The WebWatch project is funded by BLRIC (British Library Research and Innovation Centre)

• The WebWatch project involves the development and use of web robot software for monitoring use of web technologies

• Papers, reports, articles and presentations of the findings are produced by the WebWatch project

UKOLN is funded by the British Library Research and Innovation Centre, the Joint Information Systems Committee of the Higher Education Funding Councils, as well as by project funding from the JISC’s Electronic Libraries Programme and the European Union. UKOLN also receives support from the University of Bath where it is based.

A WebWatch Trawl

A simple model of how the WebWatch robot trawls communities is shown below

Input fileof URLs

Resource A

Resource B

Summary file

Resource A,B, etc. could beindividual pages or entire websites

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