Supporting end-users in the creation of dependable web clips

Sandeep Lingam, Sebastian Elbaum
2007 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on World Wide Web - WWW '07  
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
more » ... 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 results of two preliminary studies.
doi:10.1145/1242572.1242701 dblp:conf/www/LingamE07 fatcat:n7ypw5zav5bbfmgf7r5a3mnwba