10.6084/m9.figshare.5488099.v1 Philipp Schaer Philipp Schaer Mandy Neumann Mandy Neumann PosterCLEF2017.pdf figshare 2017 web scraping oxpath test collection Information Retrieval and Web Search 2017-10-11 11:27:39 Poster https://figshare.com/articles/poster/PosterCLEF2017_pdf/5488099 Extending TREC-style test collections by incorporating external resources is a time consuming and challenging task. Making use of freely available web data requires technical skills to work with APIs or to create a web scraping program specifically tailored to the task at hand. With this poster, present a light-weight alternative that employs the web data extraction language OXPath to harvest data to be added to an existing test collection from web resources. We demonstrate this by creating an extended version of GIRT4 called GIRT4-XT with additional metadata fields harvested via OXPath from the social sciences portal Sowiport. This allows the re-use of this collection for other evaluation purposes like bibliometrics-enhanced retrieval. The demonstrated method can be applied to a variety of similar scenarios and is not limited to extending existing collections but can also be used to create completely new ones with little effort.