In: Journal of the American Society for information science and technology, 2008, vol. 59, no. 1, p. 12-24
We propose an approach to content-based Distributed Information Retrieval based on the periodic and incremental centralisation of full content indices of widely dispersed and autonomously managed document sources. Inspired by the success of the Open Archive Initiative’s protocol for metadata harvesting, the approach occupies middle ground between content crawling and distributed retrieval. As...
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