Search, retrieval, resource discovery:  

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Searching - LoC 

• LoC Home Page
• Z39.50 maintenance agency; part 1
• The WWW Virtual Library arranged by LoC standards
• Understanding and Comparing Web Search Tools
• Matrix of WWW Indices: A comparison of Internet indexing tools

Federated search 

• UIUC Federation Across Heter. DBs
• STARTS
• INFOSEEK patent
• TSIMMIS
• Virginia Tech Federated Search Demonstration for NDLTD (theses, dissertations)
• Emerge (NCSA component architecture)

CyberStacks (WWW, Classification, Catalogs, Reviews/Clearinghouses) 

• Home Page
• Net Projects
• Alphabetical topics vs. LC ranges
• Call for contributions
• Question: Which efforts are far along? What demonstrations can you find that are the most informative / explanatory? How well does the Library of Congress classification system fit for WWW resources?
• Related work: OCLC's Scorpion Project; DDC; Mantis; CORC

Columbia 

• D-Lib Article on Images/Video
• WebSeek Home Page

Database Groups

Filtering

• Defn from U. Md. Information Filtering Project
• Paracel automated genomic sequence and text analysis systems
• What is information filtering? How does it differ from information retrieval?

Cross-Language Information Retrieval Resources 

• Eurospider and ISN LASE Search demo
• Readware
• Mundial - English and Spanish Demo
• Questions:
• What languages are covered?
• How well are phrases handled?

Berkeley documents and queries (please study carefully, answering questions)

UCSB spatial indexing and retrieval