Internet resource discovery services |
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| Authors: | Obraczka K. Danzig P.B. Li S.-H. |
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| Affiliation: | Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; |
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| Abstract: | An overview of resource discovery services currently available on the Internet is presented. The authors concentrate on the following discovery tools: the Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS) project, Archie, Prospero, Gopher. The World-Wide Web (WWW), Netfind, the X.500 directory, Indie, the Knowbot Information Service (KIS), Alex, Semantic File Systems, and Nomenclator. The authors summarize the surveyed tools by presenting a taxonomy of their characteristics and design decisions. They also describe where to find and how to access several of the surveyed discovery services. They conclude with a discussion of future directions in the area of resource discovery and retrieval |
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