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gils: Advanced Search Facility discussion list

gils: Advanced Search Facility discussion list

Advanced Search Facility discussion list

Eliot Christian (echristi@usgs.gov)
Wed, 24 Dec 1997 06:44:22 -0500 

Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.19971224064422.0077ba94@130.118.4.2>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 1997 06:44:22 -0500
To: gils@cni.org
From: Eliot Christian <echristi@usgs.gov>
Subject: Advanced Search Facility discussion list


Please forward this note to other interested people and relevant 
discussion lists.

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A discussion list for the Advanced Search Facility has been 
established at the Coalition for Networked Information. (Our thanks 
to Craig Summerhill!) Here's an excerpt from its description--

ABOUT THE ASF FORUM:

     The purpose of the Advanced Search Facility is to provide an 
efficient means for gathering and indexing information on the Internet. 
ASF supports automatic indexing of the content of sites, to include 
contents of GILS-compliant locators. ASF includes a gatherer service, 
broker service, indexer, and a query processor. The gatherer extracts 
documents by following Web and FTP links and by using Z39.50 search 
and retrieve facilities. The broker collects gathered information 
from many gatherers. The indexer indexes documents and creates GILS 
locator records. The query processor supports full-text, fielded 
Boolean, and proximity queries, including spatial queries.

     The ASF Forum is a public, moderated computer forum open to anyone 
interested in discussing development, implementation, deployment, 
and technical issues surrounding the Advanced Search Facility (ASF). 
The ASF Forum provides the opportunity for implementors, information 
providers, information intermediaries, librarians, public interest 
groups, the public, and other organizations to participate in 
discussions related to the ASF. The ASF Forum will also announce and 
provide electronic access to documents related to the ASF.

  
TO JOIN THE ASF FORUM:

   You may join this forum at any time by sending this command as an 
e-mail note to the Coalition ListProcessor (LISTPROC@CNI.ORG)

   subscribe <listname> <your real name>
      e.g. SUBSCRIBE ASF John Doe


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