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....receive and send mail from a network connected Macintosh or PC. Archie [Emtage 92] it is a query system currently tracking the contents of over 800 anonymous ftp archive sites containing over a million file stored across the Internet. Xarchie is an X11 browser interface to the service. WAIS [Kahle 90] stan ds for Wide Area Information Servers. It is an Internet based network approach to information retrieval developed jointly by Thinking Machines Corporation, Apple Computer, and Dow Jones. It allows users to access information based on keyword searches; the list of items likely to be of ....

B. Kahle et al., WAIS interface prototype functional specification, Thinking machine Corporation, 1990.

....network information services, which will require significant efforts in organizing, populating and managing the Directory Information Base. X.500 is not the only technology base that may be used in implementing network information services. Some techniques, such as Gopher[Alberti 91] and WAIS[Kahle 90] Wide Area Information Service) will be used to retrieve information which is less directory oriented such as textual database retrieval and how to type information. 3.4.3 Accounting Public law 102 194 (formerly known as the S.272 Gore bill) mandates that the NREN shall have accounting ....

Kahle, Brewster. "WAIS Interface Prototype Functional Specification. " Thinking Machines Corporation, April 1990.

....the context of that paper, the archive location field could be a UDI. A UDI should also, however, be able to hold an x.500 name file: info.cern.ch. pub www doc udi1.ps Page 2 UDIs: Feb W.A.I.S. [Kahl90] Host name or IP address [IP port] database name local document id Gopher [Albe91] Host name or IP address [IP port] database name selector string HTTP [Bern91] Host name or IP address [IP port] local document id NNTP [Kant86] group Group name NNTP article Host name unique message identifier x.500 ....

Kahle, B., et. al., "WAIS Interface Prototype Functional Specification", Thinking Machines Corporation, April 1990 UDI=file://quake.think.com/pub/wais/doc/wais-concepts.txt

....documents, like the project information box traditionally included on engineering drawings. Additional paths to information are available through boolean searches on automatically generated keywords, as well as full text searches using interactive tools such as WAIS (Wide area Information Service) [16]. ffl Collaboration technology SHARE will focus on issues that are particularly relevant to our deployment of Xshare and MovieMail in engineering environments. They include: evaluating the cost and benefits of full motion video versus MovieMail s bandwidth conserving format of narrated slides ....

Kahle, B. et al., "WAIS Interface Prototype Functional Specification", Thinking Machines Corporation, April 1990

....an organization framework. For instance, the user can group such references into personally meaningful categories, or store them in desirable and easy to locate destinations for future access. In addition, the WAIS documentation does not fully discuss the significance of unique record identifiers. [KAHL90] Finally, the WAIS metaphor currently allows the client to access only WAIS servers. Therefore, the premise is that the data sources will conform to the WAIS client protocol specifications. This thesis takes a different approach to information retrieval from disparate data sources. Because of the ....

Kahle, B., et al "WAIS Interface Prototype Functional Specification", Thinking Machines Corporation, April 1990

....of hypertext, as articles contain references to other articles and news groups. News groups are like directories, but more informative. Some nonstandard protocols are in use by other experimental systems, and W 3 browsers can access two of these: The Wide Area Informtion Server (WAIS) protocol [Kahl90] provides search and retrieve by database. Although not currently specified to allow links to other servers or data accessible by other protocols, it is close to the functionality required by W 3 . A gateway server provides access from any W 3 browser to any WAIS server. The Internet ....

Kahle, B. et al., "WAIS Interface Prototype Functional Specification", Thinking Machines Corporation, April 1990. UDI=file://quake.think.com/pub/wais/doc/protspec.txt

....project. Existing hypertext systems (see for example [3, 4] tend to be restricted to the local or distributed file system, and often are developed with a limited set of platforms in mind. Contemporary information retrieval and access systems such as Alex [5] Gopher [6] Prospero [7] and WAIS [8] cover a wide area without the hypertext functionality. Merging the techniques of hypertext, information retrieval, and wide area networking produces the W 3 model. This poses specific requirements on document naming schemes, protocols, and data representation. The W3 data model The W 3 ....

Kahle, B., et. al., "WAIS Interface Prototype Functional Specification", Thinking Machines Corporation, April 1990

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