Re: DYNAMIC Netfind from WWW
"(Arnold Bloemer)" <bloemer@tnt.uni-hannover.dbp.de>
Date: 23 Apr 93 8:15
From: "(Arnold Bloemer)" <bloemer@tnt.uni-hannover.dbp.de>
To: www-talk@nxoc01.cern.ch
Message-id: <RFC-822:>
Subject: Re: DYNAMIC Netfind from WWW
RFC-822-HEADERS:
Cc: www-bug@info.cern.ch, mosaic-x@ncsa.uiuc.edu, hardy@cs.colorado.edu,
dehning, falken, grau, muenkel, niem, woelker, wollborn, seelmann
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In my previous mail I included the description from dynamic-netfind.src.
I took the description which was diplayed by xmosaic and generated from the
WWW-WAIS Gateway. Unfortunately the gateway just returned the first
n lines of the description.
Is this a bug or a feature ?
See the appendix of this mail for the full description.
Arnold
P.S.: There is also a DYNAMIC archie
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(:source
:version 3
:ip-name "ftp.cs.colorado.edu"
:tcp-port 8000
:database-name "DYNAMIC netfind"
:cost 0.00
:cost-unit :free
:maintainer "hardy@cs.colorado.edu"
:description
"This WAIS server performs Netfind searches. It uses the waisserver
from the Dynamic WAIS prototype at the University of Colorado in
Boulder. To use this WAIS server: supply keywords for a Netfind
search. A list of matching domains will be returned as relevant
documents. Choose one of the domains to retrieve the results from a
Netfind search for that domain. Due to the strict query format for
Netfind, keywords must be in the format: name key key...
For example, to find information about Darren Hardy at the University
of Colorado in Boulder, use the keywords 'hardy boulder colorado' or
'hardy boulder colorado computer science'.
In order to use X WAIS with the Dynamic WAIS server you can apply the
patch for xwais found in the Dynamic WAIS distribution. It's a simple
one-line patch to xwais. Or you can add a text viewer to your filters
preference (either in the Xwais.filters resource or with the \"Prefs\"
button). For example:
DYNAMIC,xedit;
Dynamic WAIS extends the WAIS paradigm to support information from
remote search systems (as opposed to the usual collection of static
documents). It supports gateways from WAIS to Archie and to our
Netfind Internet User directory service. Unlike menu-level gateways
(such as the current interim telnet interface from the Internet Gopher
system to Netfind), Dynamic WAIS uses the Z39.50 information retrieval
protocol to seamlessly integrate the information spaces. This approach
allows users to access a great deal of diverse information without
learning multiple user interfaces.
The key idea behind the Dynamic WAIS gateways is the conceptual work of
constructing mappings between the WAIS search-and-retrieve operations,
and the underlying Archie and Netfind operations. In the case of
Netfind, for example, when the Dynamic WAIS user requests a search using
the \"dynamic-netfind.src\" WAIS source, the search is translated to a
lookup in the Netfind seed database, to determine potential domains to
search. The Netfind domain selection request is then mapped into a WAIS
database selection request. Once the user selects one of the domains to
search, the WAIS retrieval phase is mapped into an actual domain search
in Netfind.
If you would like to learn more about Dynamic WAIS, you can obtain the
source to the Dynamic WAIS prototype The prototype is available via
anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.colorado.edu in /pub/cs/distribs/dynamicwais.
A paper on Dynamic WAIS is in preparation.
This WAIS server was created in January 1993 by Darren R. Hardy and
Michael F. Schwartz as part of the Networked Resource Discovery
Project. You may reach them at the Department of Computer Science,
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0430, or via email at
hardy@cs.colorado.edu and schwartz@cs.colorado.edu.
"
)
(:source
:version 3
:ip-name "ftp.cs.colorado.edu"
:tcp-port 8000
:database-name "DYNAMIC archie"
:cost 0.00
:cost-unit :free
:maintainer "hardy@cs.colorado.edu"
:description
"This WAIS server performs Archie searches. It uses the waisserver
from the Dynamic WAIS prototype at the University of Colorado in
Boulder. To use this WAIS server: supply a keyword for an Archie
search. A list of Archie servers will be returned as relevant
documents. Choose one of the Archie servers to retrieve the results
from an Archie query. Typically, Archie queries take more than 5
minutes due to the load on the Archie servers. Dynamic WAIS uses the
Archie-Prospero client to query Archie servers.
In order to use X WAIS with the Dynamic WAIS server you can apply the
patch for xwais found in the Dynamic WAIS distribution. It's a simple
one-line patch to xwais. Or you can add a text viewer to your filters
preference (either in the Xwais.filters resource or with the "Prefs"
button). For example:
DYNAMIC,xedit;
Dynamic WAIS extends the WAIS paradigm to support information from
remote search systems (as opposed to the usual collection of static
documents). It supports gateways from WAIS to Archie and to our
Netfind Internet User directory service. Unlike menu-level gateways
(such as the current interim telnet interface from the Internet Gopher
system to Netfind), Dynamic WAIS uses the Z39.50 information retrieval
protocol to seamlessly integrate the information spaces. This approach
allows users to access a great deal of diverse information without
learning multiple user interfaces.
The key idea behind the Dynamic WAIS gateways is the conceptual work of
constructing mappings between the WAIS search-and-retrieve operations,
and the underlying Archie and Netfind operations. In the case of
Netfind, for example, when the Dynamic WAIS user requests a search using
the \"dynamic-netfind.src\" WAIS source, the search is translated to a
lookup in the Netfind seed database, to determine potential domains to
search. The Netfind domain selection request is then mapped into a WAIS
database selection request. Once the user selects one of the domains to
search, the WAIS retrieval phase is mapped into an actual domain search
in Netfind.
If you would like to learn more about Dynamic WAIS, you can obtain the
source to the Dynamic WAIS prototype The prototype is available via
anonymous ftp from ftp.cs.colorado.edu in /pub/cs/distribs/dynamicwais.
A paper on Dynamic WAIS is in preparation.
This WAIS server was created in January 1993 by Darren R. Hardy and
Michael F. Schwartz as part of the Networked Resource Discovery
Project. You may reach them at the Department of Computer Science,
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309-0430, or via email at
hardy@cs.colorado.edu and schwartz@cs.colorado.edu.
"
)