Educational Service Web Database Prototype

Abstract

One of the major services from a higher education department is to provide up-to-date information for potential students who want to pursue higher education in foreign countries. These information collection processes, if handled by human, are time consuming and tedious. Educational Service Web Database Prototype (ESWD) is a prototype system built for educational counselors whose one of duties is to provide information to aid students in university selection process. It is an automated information collection prototype system. The main purpose is to automatically collect information from the webpages of top universities worldwide. Technologies employed during the development are web search crawling, text processing, and database management.