METADATA PRODUCER AND HARVESTER SYSTEM FOR HARVESTING METADATA FROM HETROGENEOUS WEB CONTENT REPOSITORIES

Abstract

Web portals are implemented in various platforms, technologies and content repository standards. Virtually they integrate data from content repositories, RDBMS and even from other portals. Standards and infrastructures such as SOA [24], Web services [22], Web content Management System, Content repository, Content Frame work [3], Content workflows have to be designed for developing interoperable web portals. National portal of India is a citizen centric portal which provides a unified interface/gateway for accessing Central, State government department web portals. Presently the National portal of India and its state of art technologies facilitates only URL based integration with the other state and departmental portals. A detailed study and analysis was carried to evolve common portal frame work architecture [2] to facilitate efficient content integration and interoperability. Based on the above architecture, a system called Metadata Producer and Harvester has been designed and d...