Title :
Internet resource discovery services
Author :
Obraczka, Katia ; Danzig, Peter B. ; Li, Shih-Hao
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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.<>
Keywords :
computer networks; information retrieval; information services; internetworking; Alex; Archie; Gopher; Indie; Internet; Knowbot Information Service; Netfind; Nomenclator; Prospero; Semantic File Systems; Wide Area Information Servers; World-Wide Web; X.500 directory; design decisions; information retrieval; resource discovery services; Computer displays; Conference proceedings; Databases; Fellows; Graphics; Information retrieval; Network servers; Web and internet services; Web server; Writing;
