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- From: Lagoze; Carl <lagoze@exchange.cs.cornell.edu>
- Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 10:58:31 PST
- Subject: Status of STARTS and Reference Implementation
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You are receiving this note because of your past interest in STARTS - Stanford Protocol Proposal for Internet Search and Retrieval. As you might recall, STARTS is the result of an informal "standards" effort, coordinated at Stanford, to develop a simple protocol that text search engines should follow to facilitate searching and indexing multiple collections of text documents. Over the past several months, Stanford and Cornell have collaborated to test and refine the STARTS protocol through the development of a reference implementation. This reference implementation is written in Java and provides a STARTS compliant front-end to the freeWAIS-sf search engine. The source and full information on the reference implementation is available at http://www2.cs.cornell.edu/lagoze/starts/starts_reference.htm. The STARTS home page is at http://www-db.stanford.edu/~gravano/starts_home.html. At this point we are still determining how best to proceed with the STARTS effort. One possibility recently discussed is to incorporate the "Dublin Core" attribute-set into the STARTS protocol (in addition to the "basic-1" default attribute set). STARTS could then be used as a means for searching over multiple sites that use the Dublin Core for document metadata. We are open to other ideas on how to exploit the interoperability afforded by this protocol. If you have any questions or comments, please contact me or Luis Gravano at Stanford (gravano@cs.stanford.edu). Carl Lagoze Project Leader, Digital Library Research Group Department of Computer Science, Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 Phone: +1-607-255-6046 FAX: +1-607-255-4428 E-mail: lagoze@cs.cornell.edu WWW: http://www2.cs.cornell.edu/lagoze/lagoze.html