1. Introduction to Digital Libraries Assignment #3
Old Dominion University
Department of Computer Science
CS 695 Fall 2003
Michael L. Nelson
10/23/03

2. Writing A Robot Build a web robot that harvests metadata from:
Restrictions
use your own code, not an existing robot
have it work from the command line
have it take N arguments, which represent years from
e.g.: % robot.pl
it must visually display progress of harvesting the metadata and storing it locally
In class demo, Nov

3. Assumptions
This is not a general robot; it only has to work on this 1 site
You don’t have to harvest the images or PDFs; only the metadata
maintain the year/report # information however
Just save the metadata locally
other:
use this url as a base:
where YEAR is
investigate the use of “lynx” and/or libWWW