RE4008 -

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RE4008 - SELECT

• Rating and filtering of scientific, technical and
  other
• network documents
• Annual Review Brussels, 18.01.2000

News Forums
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Difference Between Web and News/Forums

• Time from writing to reading
• Web Often several months
• News A few hours or days
• Thus news rating requires
• Simple ratings collection (implicit ratings)
• Fast ratings distribution
• Purging of old ratings

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Architecture
How are ratings collected from users? How are
filtering results provided?
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Modified News Server
Path news.ifi.unizh.ch! news-ge.switch.ch!ne
wsfeed.berkeley.edu!brister From
brister_at_bb.rc.vix.com (James Brister) Newsgroups
news.software.nntp Subject INN 2.2.1 now
available Date 26 Aug 1999 080234
GMT Organization Internet Software
Consortium Lines 21 Message-ID
lt7q2saqsal1_at_isrv4.pa.vix.comgt X-SELECT-personal-
rating very good X-SELECT-general-rating
medium Xref news.ifi.unizh.ch news.software.nntp
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Web-based Groupware News Client
KOM 2000 Forum and Chat System Developed jointly
for SELECT and Senior Online fourth framework
projects User interface carefully designed in
many interactions with users to be easy to use
for anyone SELECT filtering will be provided on
own forums and on imported newsgroups
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Development of the KOM 2000 User Interface
User sits in front of a computer, trying to use
the software to be evaluated, or a prototype or
mockup of this software. Observer stands behind,
looking at the the user, nothingwhat happens but
interfering as little as possible.
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KOM 2000 User Interface 1
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KOM 2000 User Interface 2
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KOM 2000 User Interface 3