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Report of the Distributed Indexing/Searching Workshop
Author: Michael Schwartz, Editor
Publisher:

The workshop addresses information server technologies, search technologies and directory and online services. Participants are proponents of repository interface standards for distributed indexing and searching. The report begins with a two page summary of topics and outcomes. Three technical sessions were held on Distributed Data Collection, Data Transfer Formats, and Distributed Search Architectures. Follow-on discussion was on indexing and collecting information needed for indexing. Slides, session notes, outcomes, and quotes are included. Participant and position papers are available in PDF, Postscript and Word format. Standards to support searching and metadata tags were among topics discussed.

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Zthes: A Z39.50 Profile for Thesaurus Navigation
Author: Mike Taylor
Publisher: U.S. Library of Congress

This document describes the draft Z39.50 profile for querying structured thesauri and displaying the results in a client/server environment.

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