Abstract
Even though the Internet is now a widely accessible data source,
the unorganised flood of information makes a specific request e.g.
for renewable energy products inefficient. In addition, existing
databases on renewable energies are often old and incomplete. The
objective of IRIS has been to organise and retrieve renewable
energy product information on the Internet instead of collecting
it manually. Updating coincides with the self
interestself-interest of manufacturers to present their latest
renewable energy products on their own HTML documents. IRIS is
based on a set of powerful tools and intends to find, extract,
collect and index HTML documents with standardised META tags that
are widely spread across web servers on the Internet. This paper
presents the structure of IRIS, the software tools, and gives one
example of how to categorise and prepare web-sites with product
information on biogas systems in order to become part of IRIS.
IRIS has been developed in the context of the project „AVALANCHE"
which is partly funded under the JOULE programme of the European
Commission DGXII.Keywords: Renewable Energy Technologies -
Electronic Commerce - Information System - META-tags
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Renewable Energy Databases: Fostering RE Market Expansion |
| Place of Publication | München, Germany |
| Publisher | WIP |
| Publication date | 1999 |
| Pages | 22-27 |
| Publication status | Published - 1999 |
| Event | Renewable Energy Databases: Fostering Market Expansion - München, Germany Duration: 1 Jan 1999 → … |
Conference
| Conference | Renewable Energy Databases: Fostering Market Expansion |
|---|---|
| City | München, Germany |
| Period | 01/01/1999 → … |
