Data wrapping on the World Wide Web

In this thesis, I designed and implemented the Generic Screen Scraper. The Generic Screen Scraper is a tool that generates data wrappers to extract requested data from data sources on the World-Wide Web. Data wrappers isolates users from interacting directly with heterogeneous data sources (i.e. SQL or non-SQL) by allowing all queries to be issued using Standard Query Language based on the relational data model. Structured or semi-structured data sources on the World-Wide can be made scrapable by the Generic Screen Scraper, as long as the data sources are registred following some specifications. Thesis Supervisor: Michael D. Siegel Title: Principal Research Scientist, Sloan School of Management

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