1. Introduction to Digital Libraries Assignment #2
Old Dominion University
Department of Computer Science
CS 695 Fall 2003
Michael L. Nelson
10/14/04

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

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
Save the metadata as DC files
might be of interest:
“lynx”
libWWW