Automatic conversion of science news Email to Hypertext format

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Automatic conversion of science news
E-mail to Hypertext format

• Minor Project Presentation
• By
• Neetu Bharti
• National Centre for Science Information
• Indian Institute of Science
• Bangalore-560012
• 10th Jan 2002

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Contents

• Introduction
• Significance of Science News
• Science News and Moreover Technology
• System Design
• News format in e-mail
• Screen Shots
• Conclusion
• Future Development
• Demo

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Introduction

• The fresh information being generated almost
  every second in the Net resulted in information
  explosion.
  
• We need to locate the right place to gather the
  right information and for this the Net has a
  concept called Content Syndication.
  
• Content Syndicate's gather varied information
  available at different sites that generate
  content, organize it properly in a database and
  keep it for others to access from a single
  point.
• At Scigate, we are providing all about Science
  and this project is further enhancement of the
  services of Scigate.

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Significance of Science News

• Science News acts as a current awareness
  information tool.
  
• It can be helpful for scientists, researchers and
  students working in different discipline of
  science.
  
• With the help of Science News, one can avoid the
  duplication of research.
  
• Scientist can also focus their research area
  based on Science News.
  

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Science News and Moreover Technology

• Moreover Technology is based on syndicate
  content.
  
• Moreover finds and extracts new information from
  almost 3000 web sources.
  
• Moreover integrates this custom-filtered
  information into client intranets, extranets, and
  websites in the form of headlines, updated as
  often as every 15 minutes.
• Moreover has divided subjects into 330
  sub-subject categories.

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System Design
Text file
Date Extract
Extract News Content
Input file
Module-1
HTML file
Module-2
Output file
Cont
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Cont

• Module 1
• Extract the Date, which includes Time and
  convert Time from GMT format to IST format.
  
• Module 2
• Extract News content and convert it into HTML
  format.

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News format in e-mail

• The News through the E-mail, I have got looks
  like this.
  
• News Format

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Screen Shot
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Conclusion

• Science News is important for the scientists and
  researchers to get the latest in the field of
  science and technology.
  
• Science News is an important part of any science
  portal to keep abreast its users and Scigate is
  one such service provided by NCSI.
  
• The main users of this portal are the scientists,
  research scholar and students of IISc working in
  the area of different disciplines of science.
  This project can be considered as another
  enhancement of the Scigate portal.
• Through this service, we can inform our users
  with the latest developments in the field of
  science and can improve their productivity as
  they can focus more on latest developments and
  can change/enhance their research area.

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Future Development

• There is always scope of improving any service.
• This is also true here. In future, we can have
• these developments.
• Now there is only News headline and Source is
  given. We can also provide some detail about the
  news itself in 2-3 lines so that the user can
  immediately come to know about the news
  contents.
• We can also provide the daily news e-mail alert
  service to our users.
  
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• 
  Cont.

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Cont

• We can also archive the news. Till yet, we are
  providing the news on daily basis. Now if any
  user forgot to logged-in in any particular day,
  s/he can not access the previous days news. To
  facilitate them with all the news, the archive
  can be maintained so that if any user comes after
  sometime, s/he can access old news also.
• Provision can be made for taking the text file
  automatically and save it and run the program
  regularly or frequently.            

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DEMO
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