JP2002169836A - Support system for integration and rearrangement of information - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a support system for integration and rearrangement of information which can precisely integrate and display information analog a layout form that a user generates. SOLUTION: This integration and rearrangement support system for information is equipped with a layout form generating means 21 which determines the layout form matching a style that the user requires and also saves a tag as a key for extracting necessary data in an item of the layout form at the same time, an information acquiring means 22 which acquires source data including the tag from the source information that the user specifies, an information integrating means 23 which extracts data corresponding to the tag from the saves source data and integrates the data, and an integrated information output means 61 which outputs the generated integrated data according to the layout form.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] The present invention relates to a database and W
The present invention relates to an information consolidation and support system that supports the organization of information by extracting and acquiring specific information desired by a user from information on the WW.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, with the development of the Internet, the WWW (World Wide Web) of the Internet has been developed.
Various information and services can be obtained from above. However, since the amount of information existing on the WWW is enormous and the information formats and editing styles are various, it is easy to extract and efficiently obtain and organize the information required by the user. is not.

[0003] Therefore, there has been proposed a technique for efficiently obtaining information on the WWW according to conditions desired by a user. Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 11-203100 discloses an HTM on WWW.
A technology that acquires an L (Hyper Text Markup Language) document, removes unnecessary information such as image data from the HTML tag by judging it from an HTML tag, and outputs a blank portion of the unnecessary information while maintaining the document layout. Is disclosed. Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 11-134341 also discloses that an HTML document on the WWW is acquired, a keyword set in advance is searched from the HTML document, and the search result and the HTML
There is disclosed a technique for extracting and displaying a group of character strings including a keyword using a tag.

[0004]

In the conventional information acquisition technique, since necessary information is extracted by using HTML, which is a description language of the original information, as a clue, the H to be extracted is used.
If the information desired by the user is not described in the TML document, a new HTML document has to be searched for by following the link embedded in the HTML document. For this reason, there is an inconvenience that the list of information desired by the user is significantly reduced.

Further, in the technique disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 11-203100, information
Since it cannot be determined whether the tag is described in the range of the tag, there is a possibility that necessary information may be missed. In addition, since unnecessary information such as an image is displayed in a blank state, layout efficiency at the display stage is low.

In the technique disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. H11-134341, the presence or absence of information desired by the user is determined only by searching for a keyword. I couldn't. Further, since the layout at the display stage is not unified, it is very inconvenient to compare and examine the acquired information.

[0007] Under such circumstances, it is required to obtain information desired by the user with high accuracy and to display the information in a layout desired by the user in a legible manner. More specifically, if the information desired by the user is distributed among multiple pieces of original information, the necessary information is extracted from the information and edited and displayed on the same layout form, making comparison and examination easier. It is a request to do.

That is, according to the present invention, a layout form of information desired by the user is created by the user himself, and the information is accurately aggregated and displayed according to the layout form, thereby improving the listability of the aggregated information. It is an object of the present invention to provide an information aggregation and support system that makes it easy to compare aggregated information.

[0009]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, an information summarizing and organizing support system according to the present invention determines a layout form for summarizing and displaying information required by a user. A layout form creating means for storing a tag serving as a key for extracting data corresponding to the item, an information acquiring means for acquiring original data including the tag from a range of the original information specified by the user, Information aggregation means for extracting data corresponding to the tag from data to generate aggregated data, and aggregated information output means for outputting the aggregated data generated by the information aggregation means in accordance with the layout form It is characterized by. According to this configuration, it is possible to efficiently and accurately extract information required by the user from a large amount of information and to collectively display the information on a layout form desired by the user.
Information can be easily organized, viewed, and compared.

[0010] In the layout form creation means, by using an XML tag as a key tag, information required by a user can be accurately extracted based on individual meanings, not just a data format. it can.

[0011] Further, the layout form creation means may be configured such that, when associating an XML tag with an item in the layout form, a portion to which the XML tag is added can be input from the XML document by a drag-and-drop operation. Can also. According to this configuration, the present invention can be easily used even when the user does not have detailed knowledge of the XML tag.

Further, the information acquisition means of the present invention is characterized in that the information acquisition means is configured to acquire original data corresponding to a layout form from a web page on the WWW designated by a URL by a user. According to this configuration, information desired by the user can be acquired widely from the WWW having various and large amounts of information, so that the quality and quantity of acquired information are enhanced.

When the original data corresponding to the layout form cannot be extracted from the web page on the WWW specified by the user, the information obtaining means searches for another web page by following the link from the web page. It may be configured to supplement necessary original data. According to this configuration, not only information specified by the user in advance, but also other information related to the information is automatically searched. Therefore, even when the user does not know where all the information is located, it is possible to acquire information over a wide range using fragmentary information as a clue.

Further, the information aggregating means in the present invention can be configured to generate a plurality of sets of aggregated data in a common layout form from the original data acquired by the information acquiring means. According to this configuration, a large amount of acquired information is consolidated and arranged in a common layout form, so that comparison of information is facilitated,
Oversight of information is also prevented.

The information aggregating means may be configured to extract data corresponding to a tag from a plurality of sets of original data acquired by the information acquiring means to generate aggregated data. According to this configuration, even when pieces of information desired by the user are dispersedly present in various places, the pieces of information can be collected into one layout form, so that the usability of information can be significantly improved.

Further, in the information summarizing and organizing support system of the present invention, when the data corresponding to all the items in the layout form cannot be extracted from the original data by the information aggregating means, the data cannot be extracted. The tag can be changed or added so that the original data can be reacquired. According to this configuration, even when the data required by the user cannot be sufficiently extracted, the necessary original data can be obtained again using another tag as a key. Can be reliably obtained.

Further, in the information summarizing and organizing support system of the present invention, when data corresponding to all items in the layout form cannot be extracted from the original data by the information summarizing means, the original data is acquired. The designated range of the original information can be changed or added so that the original data can be reacquired. According to this configuration, when the information amount of the original data is insufficient, it can be reacquired and supplemented, so that missing information can be reduced and the desired information can be acquired reliably.

In the present invention, the integrated information output means is configured to display extraction source information indicating from which original data the data extracted by the information collection means is extracted. And According to this configuration, it is easy for the user to obtain further related information from the collected and arranged information.

The integrated information output means is configured to display a plurality of sets of integrated data generated in a common layout form in a list form. According to this configuration, the visibility of the information aggregated by the common layout form is further improved, and comparison of the information is facilitated.

[0020]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

<System Configuration> FIG. 1 shows a system configuration of an information aggregation / arrangement support system according to the present invention. Personal computer 10 (hereinafter, referred to as “PC”)
Inside, a data processing unit 20 for controlling and managing devices necessary for the operation of the present invention, a storage unit 30 for storing data required by the data processing unit 20, and a data processing unit 20
Network interface (I
/ F) 40 are provided. The data processing unit 20
A collection of programs stored on the memory of the C10, which includes a layout form creation unit 21, an original data acquisition unit 22, and a selection unit 23. The storage unit 30 stores P
A storage space in which an area is secured in the memory of the C10, the web data storage unit 31 and the XML data storage unit 3
2, a form data storage unit 33, and an aggregated data storage unit 34. The data processing unit 20 is connected to an input control unit 51 and an input device 52 for receiving various inputs from the user, and an output control unit 61 and an output device 62 for notifying the user of various processing results. I have.

<Overall Flow of Information Aggregation and Arrangement Processing> FIG. 2
Shows the flow of the entire information aggregation / arrangement process according to the present invention. The information consolidating and organizing process according to the present invention is performed in step S1.
0 (hereinafter, each step is abbreviated as “S10”), a layout form creation process, an original data acquisition process in S20, an aggregated data generation process in S30, and an output process in S40. Hereinafter, each of these processes will be described in detail in order.

<Layout Form Creation Processing> In the layout form creation processing in S10, a layout form for the user to specify in advance what kind of information is to be acquired and in what form the information is to be aggregated and displayed. Create This layout form creation processing is performed by the layout form creation unit 21 in the data processing unit 20 shown in FIG. FIG. 3 shows the flow of the layout form creation process, and FIG. 4 shows a specific example of creating a layout form 70.

In order to create the layout form 70, first, a caption is input in S11, and a caption section 71 serving as an information aggregation item is created. Then, S
In the creation of the 12 input spaces, a data input section 72 for collecting and displaying the acquired information is created. Then, S
13, the data input unit 7
2. Enter the setting information necessary to display the acquired information. In the additional input in S14, the operations from S11 to S13 are repeated by the number of caption sections 71 and data input sections 72 required by the user.

Referring to the example of FIG. 4, the layout form 70 is composed of a plurality of caption sections 71 as items to be aggregated and a data input section 72 provided corresponding to each caption section 71. Is done. The user can freely arrange the caption section 71 and the data input section 72 on the page of the layout form 70,
These are always arranged in pairs. In this example, “product name”, “model number”, “performance”, “price”, and “option” are input as the caption section 71, and the corresponding data input section 72 is formed as a rectangular space. Is secured to the right.

In the data input section 72, individual data corresponding to each caption section 71 is extracted from the acquired information (original data) and displayed. This extraction needs to be performed based on the semantic content of each piece of information, and inputting the setting information for that is input space association. In the present invention, an XML tag is used as a key for semantically extracting individual information. Hereafter, XML
The association of the input space using the tag will be described.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a display form of a specification table (a) and a price table (b) of a certain product as an example of the obtained original data. FIG. A part of the logical structure of the specification table is expressed in an XML format document. As shown in FIG. 6, the XML document is described so as to form a clear hierarchical structure by an XML tag in which a start tag and an end tag are paired. Therefore, the required data can be extracted to the data input unit 72 by previously specifying the XML tag of the required data in the data input unit 72 and searching the specified XML tag from the original data.

However, XM related to necessary information in advance
In order to specify an L tag, it is necessary to know all types and hierarchical structures of the XML tags used in the original data. However, since the creator of the XML document can freely define the XML tag, the user of the present invention can use the XML tag.
It is not easy to check all the definitions of L tags and specify them appropriately. Therefore, in the present invention, as a method of supporting input of an XML tag, a method of selecting a character string to be associated with the data input unit 72 from an XML document and inputting the character string by a drag-and-drop operation is employed. This input method will be described with reference to FIG.

A user first prepares a sample of original data holding desired information in an XML document. And
First, in S131, the data input unit 72 selects a related part in the XML document in which data to be extracted is described. FIG.
5A and the specification tables shown in FIGS. 5A to 6 as examples, the data input unit 72 corresponding to the caption unit 71 of “model number” of the layout form 70 is provided in FIG. If it is desired to take in a character string having the meaning of "model number" from the specification table of (1), for example, a character string "8244" indicating one of the model numbers is selected. Then, in step S132, an XML tag surrounding the selected character string is extracted. In this example, from the XML document shown in FIG. 6, the character string “8244” is specified by the XML tags of <model number> and </ model number>, and the XML tag is input to the data input unit 72. The process of extracting the XML tag is not visible to the user on the specification table of FIG.
The user does not need to know what the XML tag “/ model number” has. If the XML tag can be extracted, the XML tag is stored in S133. If the XML tag cannot be extracted, a re-input instruction is performed in S134. In this procedure, the XML tags are input to all the data input units 72.

Thus, each caption section 71, each corresponding data input section 72, and each data input section 7
2, each XML tag semantically associated with
Each is entered. This data is stored as form data having a structure as shown in FIG.
Is stored in the form data storage unit 33. The extracted XML tags are also stored in the XML data storage unit 32 of the storage unit 30.

<Original Data Acquisition Processing> The desired layout form 7 is obtained by the layout form creation processing in S10.
When 0 is ready, the original data acquisition process of S20 is performed. The original data acquisition processing is to acquire information necessary for filling the layout form 70 created by the user from a data set designated by the user (a set of original data from which information is to be acquired) or a web page on the WWW. The final purpose is to acquire the original data necessary to fill all the data input sections 72 on the layout form 70. This original data acquisition processing is performed by the original data acquisition unit 22 in the data processing unit 20 shown in FIG.
It is performed in. FIG. 9 shows the flow of the original data acquisition processing. First, in S21, the original data acquisition unit 22 acquires form data created in the layout form creation processing from the form data storage unit 33. Next, S22
Then, original data necessary for filling the layout form 70 is acquired. Further, when a plurality of data sets are given to the layout form 70, additional input of original data is performed in S23.

The flow of the original data acquisition process in S22 will be described in detail with reference to FIG. First, the user enters S2
21. Specify the data set, its file name and URL
Enter Then, the original data acquisition unit 22 proceeds to S222
Search for all the XML tags specified by the form data in the specified data set. If all the XML tags are found in the data set, the data set is saved in S223. XML
If no tag is found, it is checked in step S224 whether there is a link to another document in this data set. If there is no link, the data set so far is saved in S223. If there is a link, S225
First, it is determined whether the upper limit of the link search is reached. The determination of the upper limit of the link search utilizes a technique disclosed in JP-A-2000-90111. If the upper limit of the search is reached, the search is terminated, and in S223, the data set up to this point is stored. If the search is possible, in S226, another original data is obtained by following the link, and in S222, the determination as to whether or not a necessary XML tag is included in the newly obtained original data is repeated. With such a procedure, original data necessary to fill all the data input sections 72 in the layout form 70 is acquired as much as possible.

<Aggregated Data Generation Process> When the required original data is acquired by the original data acquisition process of S20, subsequently, the aggregated data generation process of S30 is performed. This aggregated data generation process is a process of extracting and inputting corresponding data from the original data acquired in S20 to each data input unit 72 of the layout form 70 created in S10. This aggregated data generation process is performed by the selection unit 23 in the data processing unit 20 shown in FIG.
FIG. 11 shows the flow of the aggregated data generation process. First,
In S31, each data input unit 7 of the layout form 70
Then, an XML tag associated with No. 2 is acquired, and the original data is searched by using the XML tag. Taking the layout form 70 shown in FIG. 4 and the specification tables shown in FIGS. 5A to 6 as examples, the data input unit 72 corresponding to the “product name” on the layout form 70 includes XML tags such as <series> and </ series> correspond to each other, and by searching using these XML tags, "MN"
The character string "-360" is extracted. This is repeated by the number of data input units 72, and data corresponding to each XML tag is sequentially extracted from the original data to generate aggregated data.

At this time, depending on the contents of the original data, a plurality of aggregated data may be generated. In the above example,
Since a plurality of model numbers and respective specifications corresponding to the model numbers are described in the original data, it is assumed that the user wants to aggregate the specifications by model number into a plurality of layout forms 70 as shown in FIG. Here, it is a problem whether each model number and each specification can be extracted as data corresponding to each other. In this regard, X shown in FIG.
This will be described using an ML document as an example.

The XML document shown in FIG.
When an L tag (hereinafter, an end tag is omitted) and an XML tag of <specification> are searched, an X of <model number> is obtained.
For the ML tag, “8244”, “8128”, “432”
2 ”... is obtained, and the XM
For the L tag, "○○○○", "□□□□", "△△△△"
... is obtained. It is not clear which model numbers correspond to which specifications. But,
XML documents have the feature of having a clear hierarchical structure, and the same type of data and semantically related data are conventionally enclosed in the same XML tag and put together in the same hierarchy.
According to this principle, it can be determined that <model number> and <specification> in the same hierarchy enclosed by an XML tag of <model> correspond to each other. As described above, if the hierarchical structure of the XML tag is used as a clue, data corresponding to each other such as a model number “8244” and a specification “XXXXX”, and a model number “8128” and a specification “□□□□”. They can be combined into the same layout form 70.

There is a movement in the industry to standardize the hierarchical structure and tag definitions in XML documents. As the standardization progresses, even in the layout form creation process, the basic hierarchical structure of the XML document is stored, and the XML tags of the upper hierarchy are acquired in advance from the original data as a sample, thereby increasing the versatility. High-level information can be aggregated and organized.

Also, when there are a plurality of original data for extracting data, it is necessary to determine the correspondence between the extracted data in the same manner as described above. in this case,
By comparing the aggregated data extracted from the different original data and synthesizing those in which a part of the aggregated data matches, it is possible to combine the aggregated data as a set of aggregated data. In the example of the price table shown in FIG. 5A and the price table shown in FIG. 5B, aggregated data of [model number “8244” and specification “xxxxxx”] is extracted from the specification table, and [model number “ After extracting the aggregated data of “8244” and price “XXX”], the two aggregated data are combined using the data of the model number “8244” as a key. As a result, [model number “8244”, specification “XXXXX”, price “XX
X "]. In order to combine a plurality of sets of aggregated data in this manner, it is necessary to previously specify an item of interest of the user as a key item in the layout form creation processing. By appropriately setting the key items, information required by the user can be collected in a more useful form.

Next, the blank processing shown in S32 in FIG. 11 will be described. In the blank processing, when necessary data cannot be extracted from the original data and a blank remains in any of the data input units 72 on the layout form 70, it is determined whether or not to fill the blank by an additional input by the user. If necessary, the data is extracted again.

If there is a data input section 72 on the layout form 70 from which data could not be extracted, the data input section 72 is displayed once in a blank space and notified to the user. At this time, the user can issue the following two types of commands to the data processing unit 20.

The first is re-extraction after changing the extraction conditions. This is because, for the data input section 72 which is blank,
This is a process of changing or additionally inputting an XML tag serving as a search key at the time of data extraction to change an extraction condition, and retrieving the same original data again, thereby extracting data that was initially dropped.

The second is re-acquisition of the original data by expanding the range of the original information. This is a process of changing or adding the designated range of the original information, reacquiring the original data from a wider range, and performing the aggregated data generation process again to supplement the new data.

FIG. 13 shows the flow of these processes. First, in S321, a blank to be re-extracted is selected. Next, in S322, it is determined whether or not the XML tag specified in the blank data input section 72 should be re-input.
If necessary, re-input and storage of the XML tag are performed in S323. If re-input is not performed, S32 is left as it is.
Then, the process proceeds to step 4 to additionally input a data set for reacquiring the original data. Here, the range of the original information for newly acquiring the original data is added by a URL or the like. Such URLs may be plural. When the additional input of the data set is performed, the data set reacquired in S325 is stored in the original data acquisition unit 22. If the data set is not to be reacquired, the process proceeds to S326.
Then, based on the newly input XML tag or the newly acquired original data, aggregate data generation processing for this blank is performed in the same procedure as the above-described aggregated data generation processing (S30).

The aggregated data generated in this way is stored in the aggregated data storage unit 34 in the data storage unit 30 in S33 of FIG.
To save. Figure 1 shows the data structure of the aggregated data to be stored
4 is illustrated. The aggregate data 80 is the form data name 8
1, XML tag name 82, extraction data 83, and extraction source data 84. Form data name 81
Is the name of the layout form 70 from which the aggregated data 80 was generated, the XML tag name 82 is the name of the XML tag used in the search for extracting data, and the extracted data 83 is the name of the XML tag. A data element such as a character string extracted by the search and the extraction source data 84 are the file name or U
RL are indicated respectively. A required number of data elements other than the form data name 81 are simultaneously stored in association with each other.

<Output Process> When the aggregated data is generated and stored by the aggregated data generation process of S30, the process proceeds to S30.
40 output processing is performed. In this output process, the combined data displayed in the layout form 70 is displayed by a combination of the form data stored in the form data storage unit 33 and the combined data stored in the combined data storage unit 34. FIG. 12 described above illustrates a final display form when necessary data is consolidated and arranged from the original information illustrated in FIG. 5 based on the layout form 70 illustrated in FIG.

In order to facilitate access to the original information containing the extracted data, a file name and a URL of the original data in which the extracted data is described are simultaneously output. It may be displayed.
According to this, it becomes easy for the user to look at the aggregated information and additionally search and collect information related thereto. In the case of a URL on the WWW, access is made easier by automatically generating a link.

By displaying a plurality of sets of aggregated data stored in a data sheet format as shown in FIG. 12 on one page (one screen) in a list format as shown in FIG. 15, a list of aggregated information is displayed. It is also possible to enhance sexuality and comparability.

[0047]

According to the present invention, there is provided an information summarizing and organizing support system which determines a display mode of information required by a user, specifies a tag which is a key of data to be extracted, and saves the layout form. Information acquisition means for acquiring the original data including the tag from, information aggregation means for extracting data corresponding to the tag from the original data to generate aggregated data, and aggregated data generated by the information aggregation means Since it is configured to include an integrated information output unit that outputs in accordance with the layout form,
It is possible to efficiently and accurately extract information required by a user from a large amount of information, and display the information in a display form desired by the user. Therefore, it is possible to quickly and efficiently organize and browse information and perform comparative analysis.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system configuration diagram of an information aggregation / arrangement support system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing a flow of an information aggregation / arrangement process according to the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing a flow of a layout form creation process in FIG. 2;

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing a specific example of creating a layout form.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a display form of a specification table (a) and a price table (b) of a certain product as an example of original information.

6 is a diagram expressing a part of the logical structure of the specification table shown in FIG. 5A in an XML format.

FIG. 7 shows an example of X in association of the input space in FIG.
9 is a flowchart illustrating a method for supporting input of an ML tag.

FIG. 8 is a diagram schematically illustrating a data structure of a layout form.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing a flow of an original data acquisition process in FIG. 2;

FIG. 10 is a flowchart showing a flow of an original data search and storage process in the original data acquisition process in FIG. 9;

FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing a flow of an aggregated data generation process in FIG. 2;

FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an example of editing aggregated information finally output by the present invention.

13 is a flowchart showing a flow of a blank process in the aggregated data generation process in FIG.

FIG. 14 is a diagram schematically illustrating a data structure of aggregated data.

FIG. 15 is a diagram illustrating a display example when aggregated data is displayed in a list format.

[Explanation of symbols]

21 layout form creation unit (layout form creation unit) 22 original data acquisition unit (information acquisition unit) 23 sorting unit (information aggregation unit) 61 output control unit (aggregated information output unit) 70 layout form 80 aggregated data

Claims (11)

[Claims] 1. A layout form creation means for deciding a layout form for collecting and displaying information required by a user and storing a tag serving as a key for extracting data corresponding to an item in the layout form. And information acquisition means for acquiring original data including the tag from within the range of the original information specified by the user; information aggregation means for extracting aggregated data by extracting data corresponding to the tag from the original data; An integrated information output unit that outputs the integrated data generated by the information aggregating unit in accordance with the layout form. 2. A layout form creation means, comprising:
2. The information aggregation / arrangement support system according to claim 1, wherein an XML tag is used as a key tag. 3. The layout form creation means,
3. The information according to claim 2, wherein, when associating the XML tag with an item in the layout form, a portion to which the XML tag is added can be input from the XML document by a drag-and-drop operation. Aggregation and sorting support system. 4. An information acquisition unit according to claim 1, wherein the original data corresponding to the layout form is designated by a W
2. The information aggregation and consolidation support system according to claim 1, wherein the system is configured to acquire the information from a web page on the WW. 5. The information acquiring means, when the original data corresponding to the layout form cannot be extracted from the web page specified by the user on the WWW, by following the link from the web page and searching for another web page. 5. The information aggregation and consolidation support system according to claim 4, wherein the system is configured to supplement necessary original data. 6. The information consolidating and organizing support according to claim 1, wherein the information consolidating means generates a plurality of sets of consolidated data in a common layout form from the original data acquired by the information acquiring means. system. 7. The information according to claim 1, wherein the information aggregating unit extracts aggregated data by extracting data corresponding to the tag from a plurality of sets of original data acquired by the information acquiring unit. Aggregation and sorting support system. 8. When data corresponding to all items in the layout form cannot be extracted from the original data by the information aggregating means, the tag of the item for which data could not be extracted is changed or added, and 2. The information aggregation / arrangement support system according to claim 1, wherein the system is configured to enable reacquisition. 9. When the information aggregating means cannot extract data corresponding to all items in the layout form from the original data, the designated range of the original information from which the original data is to be obtained is changed or added. 2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the original data can be re-acquired. 10. The integrated information output means is configured to display extraction source information indicating from which original data the data extracted by the information integration means is extracted. 1. The information aggregation and support system described in 1. 11. The aggregation of information according to claim 6, wherein the aggregation information output unit is configured to display a plurality of sets of aggregation data generated in a common layout form in a list format. Organizing support system.