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@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/sigir/DanzigANO91,
author = {Peter B. Danzig and
Jong Suk Ahn and
John Noll and
Katia Obraczka},
editor = {Abraham Bookstein and
Yves Chiaramella and
Gerard Salton and
Vijay V. Raghavan},
title = {Distributed Indexing: A Scalable Mechanism for Distributed Information
Retrieval},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 14th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference
on Research and Development in Information Retrieval. Chicago,
Illinois, USA, October 13-16, 1991 (Special Issue of the SIGIR
Forum)},
publisher = {ACM},
year = {1991},
isbn = {0-89791-448-1},
pages = {220-229},
ee = {db/conf/sigir/DanzigANO91.html},
crossref = {DBLP:conf/sigir/91},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
BibTeX
Despite blossoming computer network bandwidths aud the emergence of hypertext and CD-ROM databases, little progress has been made towards uniting the world's library-style bibliographic databases. While a few advanced distributed retrieval systems can broadcast a query to hundreds of participating databases, experience shows that local users almost always clog library retrieval systems. Hence broadcast remote queries will clog nearly every system. The premise of this work is that broadcast-based systems do not scale to world-wide systems. This project describes an indexing scheme that will permit thorough yet efficient searches of millions of retrieval systems. Our architecture will work with an arbitrary number of indexing companies and information providers, and, in the market place, could provide economic incentive for cooperation between database and indexing services. We call our scheme distributed indexing, and believe it will help researchers disseminate and locate both published and prepublication material.
We are building and plan to distribute a research prototype for the Internet that demonstrates these ideas. Our prototype will index technical reports and public domain software from dozens of computer science departments around the country.
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