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- From: Sonya Finnigan <sonya@dstc.edu.au>
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 20:24:43 PST
- Subject: IR Internet Standard using Distributed Object Technologies
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The ZORBA project has just kicked off!
ZORBA focuses on "Information Retrieval using Distributed Object
Technologies", with an initiative to produce a standard interface for
performing distributed search and retrieval on the Internet. ZORBA
motivates a middleware solution using OMG-IDL.
Assumptions and broad directions of the intiative are contained in
"The ZORBA Manifesto" at
http://www.dstc.edu.au/Zorba/manifesto.html
The ZORBA home page is still under construction as we are still
sourcing documentation on related standards/projects/implementations
etc.
ZORBA is intended to be a grass-roots initiative. To that end, Doug
Nebert from the US Federal Goegraphic Data Committee initiated the
ZORBA mailing list.
To subscribe to the list, send email to:
majordomo@dstc.edu.au
with message body:
subscribe zorba
end
(subscriptions to zorba-discuss have been automatically transferred
to the zorba list, please address email to zorba@dstc.edu.au)
**To start the ball rolling ** if you have any experiences and/or
documentation on related standards/projects/implementations etc. that
could be of interest in light of "The ZORBA Manifesto" please post
them to the above list or if preferred email either Doug or myself.
In particular, we would like to focus at this stage on 3 main streams:
1. Suggestions for the overall IR interface architecture - how do you
see the big picture?
2. What services should the next generation Internet IR standard
support?
3. References to and/or comments on existing object implementations
or related IDL specifications.
Sonya Finnigan
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Sonya Finnigan |
CRC for Distributed Systems Technology |
DSTC Pty Ltd | Phone: +61 7 3365 2439
Department of Computer Science | Fax: +61 7 3365 1999
University of Queensland | Email:sonya@dstc.edu.au
QLD 4072, Australia |
The Future of Workflow Technology
The University of Queensland
Monday 7 April, 1997
<http://www.dstc.edu.au/DDU/events/WflowWshop.html>
DSTC WWW Homepage: <http://www.dstc.edu.au/>
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