July 9, 2012
About SUNY – Binghamton
Founded in 1946 after WWII. Located in Binghamton – a city in Southern Tier of New York State About 15,000 students
(3,000 grad students) IBM was founded in
Binghamton One of the 4 University
Centers of SUNY system: SUNY at Stony Brook, SUNY at Buffalo, SUNY at Albany. For more information, see /features/premier/index.html
Related terms for DIR: metasearch engine, federated search, web DB integration system
The Scale – How Large?
It can be as large as the number of data sources on the Web. A 2007 survey (Madhavan et al. 2007) indicates there were
Where do Web data reside?
Iceberg Structure:
A small fraction is on the Surface Web with mostly static web pages that are crawlable by following hyperlinks.
about 50 million searchable Web data sources in 2007.