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PhantomJS and DEiXTo

Recently we experimented with PhantomJS, a headless WebKit browser which can serve a wide variety of purposes such as web browser automation, site scraping, website testing, SVG rendering and network monitoring. It’s a very interesting tool that could be used … Continue reading

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DEiXTo & the Global Cancer Collaboratory project!

We are glad to announce that DEiXTo will be used by the Open Health Systems Laboratory (OHSL) in their Global Cancer Collaboratory project. This project aims at aggregating information from cancer center web sites into some central VIVO hubs, in order … Continue reading

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Hello (scraping) world (again)!

Here we are! We moved our main DEiXTo site on a WordPress platform, aiming at organizing here all DEiXTo material. DEiXTo Wiki and probably DEiXTo Blog will be integrated here soon, as well. We also plan to allow other users … Continue reading

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A Stemmer for the Greek Language

We are glad to host a Javascript based Greek Stemmer. It’s not our own work but we do plan to use it extensively in the near future. We will definitely make available any useful “side-product”. Stay tuned!

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DEiXTo powers a Code Search Engine

DEiXTo powers a federated, open source code search engine called OCEAN. A paper explaining the way this was possible will be presented in the 38th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA 2012).

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