FIBEX, an extractor enabling querying of documents using SQL

With the increasing use of digital libraries, querying of file systems has seen renewed interest, as file systems are commonly used as repositories of documents for digital libraries. We aim to extend DBMS querying capabilities to file systems by employing a data extractor called FIBEX (File Base Extractor). FIBEX generates index files from previously semi structured document files. Browsing techniques and behaviours observed in a Digital Library will be incorporated into the process of generating the FIBEX index files, to improve query efficiency. The paper describes the influence of the browsing techniques of digital library users on the creation of the index files by FIBEX.