MetaSeeker Installation Guide v2.0

This book shows how to install MetaSeeker toolkits which are made up of four tools as follows:

  • MetaStudio defines and maintains data schemas and data and clue extraction rules. The tool is released as an Firefox extension, the package of which is metastudio.xpi.
  • MetaCamp, an application deployed in Apache Tomcat server, manages themes and data schemas uploaded from MetaStudio. The former are stored in a MySQL database and the later are stored XML files. The package's name is metacamp.war.
  • DataScraper extracts data and clues from target sites, which is directed by data and clue extraction rules generated by MetaStudio. The tool is released as an Firefox extension, the package of which is datascraper.xpi.
  • DataStore, an application deployed in Apache Tomcat server, stores and manages clues, data and clue extraction instruction files and data extraction result files. The package's name is datastore.war。