Web Mining Framework: Croatian Patents Case Study

Konferenzbeitrag

Patents are one of the most valuable sources of technical and commercial knowledge. Although patents are public and can be easily searched on the Web, for most countries, there is no easy way to download bulk patent data. The purpose of this paper is to create a web mining framework used to extract patent data from the Croatian State Intellectual Property Office. Even though framework was created for the purposes of extracting Croatian patents, it can be reused for other web mining cases. The architecture of the proposed framework combines the use of web crawler and big data tools, in order to provide a complete and flexible solution for building general-purpose web mining application. The biggest limitation of this framework comes from the programming knowledge required to implement it. Therefore, this framework is only available to the small number of researchers. Data extracted with web mining methods is only as good as the algorithm used to extract data. Nevertheless, the data from official sources should always be preferred to the one retrieved using web mining methods.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: In: Proceedings of the ENTRENOVA - ENTerprise REsearch InNOVAtion Conference, Rovinj, Croatia, 8-9 September 2016 ; Year: 2016 ; Pages: 478-483 ; Zagreb: IRENET - Society for Advancing Innovation and Research in Economy

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Information and Internet Services; Computer Software ; Intellectual Property and Intellectual Capital
• Subject: web mining ; data mining ; crawling ; patent mining

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Popović, Goran
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): IRENET - Society for Advancing Innovation and Research in Economy
• (where): Zagreb
• (when): 2016

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/183755
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:44 AM CET