A Mechanism for Detecting Dead URLs in XTM-based Ontology Repository

Abstract

It is a common knowledge in this current age that the challenge is no more the availability of information but accessing the appropriate information. This challenge is attributed to the fact that information is highly unstructured. An innovative technology called XML Topic Map (XTM) is used to address the challenge. However, the technology is equally associated with an issue known as dead links as a result of lack of maintenance which causes a lot of time wastage thereby making the technology not very effective. Therefore, this paper presents an XTM-based system using News domain as case study to solve the issue of dead links. The system is a three-tier architecture implemented with Java Server Pages (JSP). The study offers a time saving system that would assist user to identify URLs that are dead in XTM-based applications as soon as user access topic.