Cross-searching subject gateways: The query routing and forward knowledge approach

D-Lib Magazine

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 27-46

  Kirriemuir, John ^a   Brickley, Dan ^a   Welsh, Susan ^b   Knight, Jon ^c   Hamilton, Martin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0040133745     PISSN: 10829873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (40)

1. ROADS to DESIRE: Some UK and Other European Metadata and Resource Discovery Projects, Lorcan Dempsey, UKOLN (UK Office for Library and Information Networking), http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july96/07dempsey.html
2. AstroWeb Astronomy Subject Gateway, http://www.cv.nrao.edu/fits/www/ astronomy.html
3. ADAM; the Art, Design, Architecture and Media information gateway, http://www.adam.ac.uk/advanced/
4. SOSIG; the SOcial Science Information Gateway, http://www.sosig.ac.uk/
5. SOSIG advanced searching facilities; search for resources according to whether they are based in Europe, the UK or anywhere in the world, http://www.sosig.ac.uk/roads/cgi/searchex.pl
6. EEVL, the Edinburgh Engineering Virtual Library. EEVL allows you to search for resources of a particular type e.g. mailing list, http://www.eevl.ac.uk/search.html
7. PAW, the Physics Around the World gateway, which allows people to search on resources suitable for people of specific educational levels, http://www.tp.umu.se/TIPTOP/paw/search.html
8. Aqueous, a gateway dedicated to water-related resources. Though there is little quality control, as people can submit resource descriptions which are automatically indexed by the gateway, the gateway contains descriptions of a large number of resources of varying degrees of association to water, http://www.aqueous.com/
9. Biz/ed, a dedicated business and economics information gateway for students, teachers and lecturers, http://www.bized.ac.uk/
10. Eldis, the Electronic Development and environment Information Service, consists of a central gateway containing details of network-based documents on environmental and development issues. Eldis offers several others services, with an emphasis on bibliographic sources in this subject field, http://www.ids.ac.uk/eldis/eldis.html
11. History, a gateway of network-based historical resources, with additional information on history academics and their research interests, and recent publications in the field, http://ihr.sas.ac.uk/ihr/info1.html
12. OMNI, Organising Medical Networked Information, is a gateway allowing access to a catalogue of large numbers of medical and health resource descriptions, http://omni.ac.uk/
13. The OMNI database search interface, which allows you to search across several databases of health/medical related resources compiled by external organisations, http://omni.ac.uk/general-info/sw-search.html
14. The issue of how much of the Web large search engines such as AltaVista actually index is an interesting one. Here, the Webmaster of a site queries what proportion of large Web sites AltaVista indexes, http://www5.zdnet.com/ anchordesk/talkback/talkback_11638.html. The chief technical officer of AltaVista responds to the points in the query, http://www5.zdnet.com/anchordesk/ talkback/talkback_13066.html.
15. The ROADS initiative is funded by the JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) http://www.jisc.ac.uk/ through the eLib programme http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/. The ROADS (Resource Organisation And Discovery in Subject-based services) Web information service is shared amongst the three project partners across the interconnected ROADS Web sites. The ROADS software can be picked up from the Loughborough http://www.roads.lut.ac.uk/ partner site, which also contains pointers to related mailing lists. The UKOLN ROADS site http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/roads/ contains the ROADS template registry and various ROADS software tools, such as data format conversion scripts. The ILRT ROADS site http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/roads/ contains various background information about the project, background information on cross-searching, and various guides to the ROADS software and project.
16. The ROADS template registry. The different types of template which can be used to store resource information are defined here, http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ roads/templates/
17. The ROADS users lists. This list contains descriptions of, and pointers to, all of the ROADS-based gateways that are publicly accessible. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/roads/who/
18. EELS, the Engineering Electronic Library, Sweden. This covers engineering resources in such sub-areas as physics, mathematics, energy technology, nuclear technology, light and optical technology, http://www.ub2.lu.se/eel/eelhome.html
19. WWEVL, the Wastewater Engineering Virtual Library. This allows you to browse or search across several hundred resources. The results of a search indicate the sub-categories which each catalogued resource falls into, http://www.cleanh2o.com/cleanh2o/ww/welcome.html. WWEVL is one subject within the Virtual Library initiative, http://www.mth.uea.ac.uk/VL/Overview.html
20. The Six Senses gateway contains medical sites reviews and gives a composite "review score" for each site, http://www.sixsenses.com/
21. Medical Matrix, a large US-based medical/health gateway aimed mainly at physicians and healthcare workers, http://www.medmatrix.org/index.asp
22. Healthweb, a medical/health gateway with a catalogue built by the collaborative effort of librarians from several academic medical centers, http://www.healthweb.org/
23. HON, the Health On the Net Foundation medical gateway, http://www.hon.ch/
24. MedWeb, a gateway maintained by the Emory University Health Science Center Library, http://www.cc.emory.edu/WHSCL/medweb.html
25. The Z39.50 Maintenance Agency Official Text for Z39.50 (1995), http://lcweb.loc.gov/z3950/agency/1995doce.html
26. The Architecture of the Common Indexing Protocol (CIP). An Internet draft, December 1997, by J. Allen and M. Mealling, ftp://ietf.org/internet- drafts/draft-ietf-find-cip-arch-01.txt
27. Architecture of the WHOIS++ service, RFC 1835, August 1995, by P. Deutsch, R. Schoultz, P. Faltstrom and C. Weider, http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/rfc/ rfc1835.txt
28. The Little Black Book - Mail Bonding with OSI Directory Services, Prentice Hall, 1992, by M.T. Rose.
29. Architecture of the Whois++ Index Service, RFC 1913, February 1996 by C. Weider, J. Fullton and S. Spero, http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/rfc/rfc1913.txt
30. How to Interact with a Whois++ Mesh, RFC 1914, February 1996, by P. Faltstrom, R. Schoultz and C. Weider, http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/rfc/rfc1914.txt
31. Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part One: Format of Internet Message Bodies, RFC 2045, November 1996, by N. Freed and N. Borenstein, http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/rfc/rfc2045.txt
32. Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Two: Media Types, RFC 2046, November 1996, by N. Freed and N. Borenstein, http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/rfc/ rfc2046.txt
33. MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) Part Three: Message Header Extensions for Non-ASCII Text, RFC 2047, November 1996, by K. Moore, http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/rfc/rfc2047.txt
34. Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) Part Four: Registration Procedures, RFC 2048, November 1996, by N. Freed, J. Klensin and J. Postel, http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/rfc/rfc2048.txt
35. Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) Part Five: Conformance Criteria and Examples, RFC 2049, November 1996, by N. Freed and N. Borenstein, http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/rfc/rfc2049.txt
36. A demonstrator model allowing people to cross-search subject gateways is available through http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/roads/cross/
37. Three reports resulting from work undertaken in the DESIRE (Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education) project are available on the UKOLN metadata site, http://www. ukoln.ac.uk/metadata/DESIRE/. These reports include "Selection criteria for quality controlled information gateways" and "The role of classification schemes in Internet resource description and discovery".
38. ROADS Cataloguing Guidelines. Draft (v. 0.1) by Michael Day, UKOLN, http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/roads/cataloguing/cataloguing-rules.html
39. A press release from the eLib Phase 3 Programme: Hybrid Libraries and Large Scale Resource Discovery (CLUMPS) and Digital Preservation, http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/services/elib/background/pressreleases/summary2.html
40. The World Wide Web Consortium RDF (Resource Discovery Framework) Web site, http://www.w3.org/Metadata/RDF/