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Distributed resource discovery: using z39.50 to build cross-domain information servers

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JCDL '01: Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries

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https://doi.org/10.1145/379437.379448

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This short paper describes the construction and application of Cross-D omain Information Servers using features of the standard Z39.50 information retrieval protocol[11]. We use the Z39.50 Explain Database to determine the databases and indexes of a given server, then use the SCAN facility to extract the contents of the indexes. This information is used to build “collection documents” that can be retrieved using probabilistic retrieval algorithms.

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Larson R(2003)Distributed IR for Digital LibrariesResearch and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries10.1007/978-3-540-45175-4_44(487-498)Online publication date: 2003
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45175-4_44
Larson RJärvelin KBeaulieu MBaeza-Yates RMyaeng S(2002)A logistic regression approach to distributed IRProceedings of the 25th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval10.1145/564376.564463(399-400)Online publication date: 11-Aug-2002
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/564376.564463
Larson RGey FChen AHersh WMarchionini G(2002)Harvesting translingual vocabulary mappings for multilingual digital librariesProceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries10.1145/544220.544259(185-190)Online publication date: 14-Jul-2002
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/544220.544259

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Larson R(2003)Distributed IR for Digital LibrariesResearch and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries10.1007/978-3-540-45175-4_44(487-498)Online publication date: 2003
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-45175-4_44
Larson RJärvelin KBeaulieu MBaeza-Yates RMyaeng S(2002)A logistic regression approach to distributed IRProceedings of the 25th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval10.1145/564376.564463(399-400)Online publication date: 11-Aug-2002
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/564376.564463
Larson RGey FChen AHersh WMarchionini G(2002)Harvesting translingual vocabulary mappings for multilingual digital librariesProceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries10.1145/544220.544259(185-190)Online publication date: 14-Jul-2002
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