The WISH Project - General Information

The WISH project is an academic research project that started in 2003, to develop software tools to automatically correct broken links in Web pages and to manage other types of link integrities. A prototype tool can be found at http://wish.slis.tsukuba.ac.jp/LIM-RO.html

2. Who is responsible for the project?

This project is conducted by the WISH project team whose members include:

• Atsuyuki Morishima , University of Tsukuba
• Toshinari Iida, University of Tsukuba
• Natsumi Sawa, University of Tsukuba
• Akiyoshi Nakamizo, Shibaura Institute of Technology (2003-2005)
• Tomohiro Ariyama, University of Library and Information Science (2003-2004)
• Shigeo Sugimoto, University of Tsukuba
• Hiroyuki Kitagawa, University of Tsukuba

3. What does "WISH" mean?

"WISH" is an abbreviation for "Web Integrity management by Self-Healing mechanisms."

4. What kinds of crawlers are used?

1. WISH-LIM is a crawler to find broken links and to search for alternative new links.
2. WISH-LA is a crawler to collect useful information to help the WISH-LIM crawler.

5. How do the crawlers avoid unnecessary and aggressive accesses to your site?

We do not want our project to place heavy loads on your Web servers. For that reason, we are making the followings efforts:

• Our crawlers respect the robots exclusion protocol.
• Our crawlers make at least 5-second interval before the next access to your site in one visit.
• Our crawlers make at least several-day interval before revisiting your site.

6. Contact Information