Ph.D. Progress Report Frank McCown 4/14/05

Timeline Year 1 : Course work and Diagnostic Exam Year 2 : Course work and Candidacy Exam Year 3 : Write and defend dissertation Possible topic: A framework for interface servers providing access to web content

Research Completed NSDL vs. Google In Progress PayGent “Lazy” Preservation OAI-PMH Coverage

NSDL vs. Google Participants: F. McCown, J. Bollen, M. L. Nelson Paper submitted to ECDL 2005 Useful K-12 Educational Content The Entire Web Google’s Searchable Content NSDL Content

NSDL vs. Google Experiment using 11 volunteer Virginia school teachers Search for key terms from Virginia Standards of Learning with NSDL and Google Which results were more relevant (educationally useful)?

PayGent Participants: F. McCown, D. Morales, S. Olariu A new framework for easy to use and secure on-line purchasing using mobile devices Goal: Publication and book chapter

“Lazy” Preservation Participants: F. McCown, J. Smith, M. L. Nelson, J. Bollen What if you were lazy and didn’t back up your web site? How much of your web site could we reconstruct using caching services (Google, Yahoo, MSN) and archives (Internet Archive)? Goal: Publication in the summer

OAI-PMH Coverage Participants: F. McCown, M. L. Nelson, X. Liu, M. Zubair, K. Maly OAI-PMH is exposing millions of records How many are indexed by Google? How were they found? Is OAI-PMH exposing the “deep” web? Goal: Publication in the summer