Web service and visualization for higher education information providing service

Important and urgent issue of higher education institutions is to provide service to their students, staffs and public with useful education information. In this paper analyzing structure of higher education information, development and improvement of the education information providing service is examined that consists of syllabus database, XML web service, curriculum analyzing system, multivariable analysis methods and other web technologies. Especially correspondence analysis is utilized in text mining in order to deepen global understanding on the characteristics of categorized and accumulated textual information included in syllabuses. This paper also presents the visualization method for higher education curriculum textual information.