WebTOC

A Tool to Visualize Web Sites using a Hierarchical Table of Contents Browser

WebTOC is a new tool developed at the University of Maryland Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory (HCIL) that gives a visualization of the contents of a Web site. It consists of two parts: the WebTOC Parser and the WebTOC Viewer. The Parser starts with a Web page and follows all the local links, generating a hierarchical representation of the documents local to the site. The Viewer displays this information as a Table of Contents (WebTOC) for the site using a standard Web browser.

Examples

Documentation

Source code

Parser

Viewer

JARS review: "Useful!"

WebTOC software was developed as a research project. HCIL does not have the resources necessary to offer software support. For more information, contact David Nation (dnation@acm.org).

Copyright © 1997 David Nation and the University of Maryland, Human Computer Interaction Laboratory. All Rights Reserved.

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for NON-COMMERCIAL or GOVERNMENT purposes without fee is hereby granted provided that the above copyright notice, attribution, date of work and this paragraph are duplicated in all such forms. Commercial use of this software is prohibited without the prior written permission of the Office of Technology Liaison, University of Maryland at College Park, 4312 Knox Road, College Park, MD 20742, Voice: 301-405-4210, Fax: 301-314-9871.

UMD, HCIL, and David Nation MAKE NO REPRESENTATIONS OR WARRANTIES ABOUT THE SUITABILITY OF THE SOFTWARE, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. UMD, HCIL, and David Nation SHALL NOT BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES SUFFERED AS A RESULT OF USING, MODIFYING OR DISTRIBUTING THIS SOFTWARE OR ITS DERIVATIVES.