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Standards in the CHIC-pilot distributed indexing architecture

Peter Valkenburg, Dave Beckett, Martin Hamilton, and Simon Wilkinson

In Towards Networking and Services in the Year 2001, Proceedings of TERENA Networking Conference 1998, volume 30, pages 1571-1578, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 1998. TERENA, Elsevier.

Abstract

The CHIC-Pilot project is a TERENA coordinated effort investigating the feasibility of setting up a large-scale distributed indexing service for searching Web-based research information. It brings together existing search services throughout Europe, integrating them into a coherent architecture.

This paper describes both formal and de-facto standards used for various components in the CHIC-Pilot architecture, that support functionality ranging from a uniform search interface and query routing to robot-based gathering of resource descriptions and the handling of metadata.

We also discuss techniques for interfacing components of search services using different standards and protocols to provide a unified service to the user.



Bibtex Record

@inproceedings{621,
author = {Peter Valkenburg and Dave Beckett and Martin Hamilton and Simon Wilkinson},
title = {Standards in the {CHIC}-Pilot Distributed Indexing Architecture},
month = {September},
year = {1998},
pages = {1571--1578},
keywords = {whois++, centroids, SOIF, Dublin Core},
note = {},
doi = {},
url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/pubs/1998/621},
    ISSN = {0169-7552},
    address = {Amsterdam, The Netherlands},
    booktitle = {Towards Networking and Services in the Year 2001, Proceedings of TERENA Networking Conference 1998},
    organization = {TERENA},
    publisher = {Elsevier},
    refereed = {no},
    volume = {30},
}

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