AMIT is designed as part of a software suite that includes web walking and metadata gathering as well as indexing and search. The manual cataloging efforts are limited by the amount of labor required to classify and maintain such large and rapidly changing document collections. More recently, there has been interest in community-based filtering for Web information access. Browsing and searching technologies are still needed. The AMIT client applet integrates hierarchical browsing with content-based search.
Animation is used to provide transitions between the many customized views that users can construct.
Browsing Figure 1 shows an AMIT view of a collection of web documents. Specification with an off-line web walker determines the underlying web space. The tree structure is imposed on the underlying directed graph link structure by picking a starting root node and including outgoing links of each document only once. A tree-based view of a web space. We have expanded the set of usual tree manipulation gestures because of the size and topology of Web link trees.