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

Volume

26

Issue

9

fYear

1993

Firstpage

8

Lastpage

22

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;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9162

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/2.231277

Filename

231277