EAGER: InfoCalc, a Spreadsheet Interface to Web Archive Analysis

人们早就认识到，虽然万维网（WWW）拥有丰富的信息，但严重缺乏访问和分析其内容的工具。这里提出的工具，如果努力是完全成功的，有可能从根本上扩展万维网内容的使用。这个项目将构建一套新的工具，使万维网档案和网络数据提供给广泛的研究人员群体，他们的努力依赖于检查在很长一段时间内以不同形式捕获的大量数据。这将包括来自社会科学、卫生信息管理研究、政治学、环境科学等领域的研究人员。该项目将包含两个组件：用于操作的分析工具的用户界面和用于支持这些工具的体系结构。分析工具将提供基本的数据管理操作，如公式创建和数据汇总。

It has long been recognized that while the World Wide Web (WWW) has a wealth of information, there is a severe lack of tools to access and analyze its contents. The tool proposed here, if the effort is fully successful has the potential to radically extend use of WWW contentsThis project will construct a new set of tools that will make World Wide Web archives and present web data available to a wide group of researchers whose efforts depend upon examination of large amounts of data captured in different forms over extensive periods of time. This would include such researchers from the social sciences, health information management research, political science, an environmental sciences, to name a few. The project will comprise two components: a user interface to analysis tools that operate and an architecture for supporting the tools. The analysis tools will provide fundamental data management operations such as formula creation, and data summarization.