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WebScripterUniversity of Southern California

Information Sciences InstituteDistributed Scalable Systems Division

Pedro Szekely, Martin Frank, Robert Neches,Baoshi Yan, Juan Lopez

{szekely, frank, rneches, baoshi, jlopez}@isi.edu

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What’s hot about WebScripter…

1. Makes it easy for users to produce reports

2. Credits sources by carrying authorship through

3. Adds value to the Semantic Web at no cost to users(“world-wide grass-roots ontology translation”)

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WebScripter Challenges

Internal1. Maximizing comprehensiveness of reports

2. Making it easy to create complex reports

External1. Compelling content: need community to focus

2. Grab an opportunity: HTML + DAML

3. Scalability: size over smarts

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