Harvest
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An update on Harvest from the Internet Monthly report. Jill
Internet Monthly Report February 1995
INTERNET RESEARCH REPORTS
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RESOURCE DISCOVERY AND DIRECTORY SERVICE
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The Internet Research Task Force research group on Resource
Discovery has been developing and experimenting with the Harvest
system for the past 1.5 years.
Harvest provides an integrated set of tools to gather, extract,
organize, search, cache, and replicate relevant information
across the Internet. With modest effort users can tailor
Harvest to digest information in many different formats, and
offer custom search services on the Internet. Moreover, Harvest
makes very efficient use of network traffic, remote servers, and
disk space.
In the past few months we have made significant improvements to
the system, allowing well-controlled specifications of the
information gathering workload, much better gathering and
indexing performance, support for more data formats, more
sophisticated caching and replication, ports to popular
platforms, and much more easily installed and used binary
distributions of the basic system. At present we are working on
extending the system to support taxonomies and query routing,
more complex data models, interfaces with other popular systems
and products (such as Verity's and WAIS Inc.'s search engines,
SGML, and SQL search engines), more customizable searching
schemes, non-textual index/search engines, and a number of
experiments concerning system scalability. We are actively
pursuing collaborative efforts with other projects in all
sectors - commercial, government, academic, and others.
Readers can get information about Harvest (including demos,
papers, software, and documentation) from
http://harvest.cs.colorado.edu/
- Mike Schwartz (schwartz@cs.colorado.edu)
University of Colorado, Boulder
IRTF-RD Chair
and Harvest Project Principal Investigator
Mike Schwartz@latour.cs.colorado.edu.