Internet Information Retrieval Discussion Document -Forwarded

[KAREN SCHNEIDER]

Of interest to web4libers?  Excuse the heading mess--Groupwise
does that, not me.  -- Karen G. Schneider/opinions mine alone


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From: Nigel Ward <nigel at dstc.edu.au>
Subject:      Internet Information Retrieval Discussion Document
Comments: To: gils at cni.org
To: Multiple recipients of list Z3950IW <Z3950IW at NERVM.NERDC.UFL.EDU>

Recently, the idea of a lightweight Internet information retrieval
standard has been discussed in forums such as the W3C Distributed
Indexing Conference and the Z39.50 Implementors mailing list.  We feel
that these discussions (while valuable) were too tightly focussed on
the technical details of such a standard and did not debate the actual
problem that it would solve.

To stimulate such a debate, we have written a document giving our view
of the problem of Internet Information Discovery, the requirements for
a solution to this problem, and various approaches to meeting those
requirements.

<http://www.dstc.edu.au/RDU/reports/webir.html>

In summary, the document says that the most important factors
influencing acceptance of an Internet information retrieval standard
are that it must be developed quickly, and allow for easy migration
from existing systems by having adequate tool support.

Comments are welcomed,

Dr Nigel Ward------------------------------------------------------------
Research Data Network CRC             http://www.dstc.edu.au/RDU/staff/nw
DSTC Pty Ltd, Gehrmann Laboratories         phone/fax: +61 7 3365 4310/11
University of Queensland, 4072, AUSTRALIA        email: nigel at dstc.edu.au
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