Exploring JXTASearch for P2P educational media discovery

Author

Qu, Changtao ; Nejdl, Wolfgang

Author_Institution

Learning Lab. Lower Saxony, Hannover Univ., Germany

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

147

Lastpage

152

Abstract

In this paper we present a peer-to-peer (P2P) application that aims at improving the discoverability of educational media typically distributed over different universities and institutions. We investigate JXTASearch, a distributed search engine constructed on Sun\´s open source P2P platform JXTA, and further extend it to support Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES) based P2P searches. While the JXTA platform provides essential interoperability among various peers at the "network" level, DCMES constitutes the minimal interoperable basis for educational media discovery at the "metadata" level. We then discuss the advantages and shortcomings of our prototype implementation, as well as future work building upon our experience with the prototype.

Keywords

educational computing; meta data; open systems; search engines; Dublin Core Metadata Element Set based peer-to-peer searches; JXTASearch; Sun open source peer-to-peer JXTA platform; distributed search engine; interoperability; peer-to-peer educational media discovery; Application software; Centralized control; Computer science; Conferences; Electronic learning; Peer to peer computing; Prototypes; Resource management; Search engines; USA Councils;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Knowledge Media Networking, 2002. Proceedings. IEEE Workshop on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1778-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/KMN.2002.1115177

Filename

1115177