MSC student in CS @ University of Salerno
AdBis is the sample project developed to apply knowledge acquired from Web Data Integration lectures; the aim was to gather information from several web sources and propose it to users like they were from a single source.
AdBis is an ebook and audiobook aggregator that offers to its users the chance to buy books from several e-commerce web sites by just making their queries to a single web site.
The available sources are:
Project architecture is based on a mediator among the above-mentioned sources. Previously retrieved results are stored into a database acting like a cache.
To determine whether a result was similar to user queried keyword, we implemented a similarity metric based on Jaccard index which is a value in [0, 1] range that express how much similar two strings are.
Backend has been written in object-oriented PHP 7; to cache data about previous search results, MySQL RDBMS has been used; front-end interface has been developed with Bootstrap.
For further references, read project README.