The IMesh Toolkit

Information Sources:

SDLIP

1. Search Middleware and the Simple Digital Library Interoperability Protocol
   A. Paepcke et al, D-Lib Magazine March 2000
   Gives a brief but illuminating view of the problems confronting search middleware design and shows how SDLIP may be able to provide acceptable solutions.
   [Original Article] [UKOLN digest]
2. The Simple Digital Library Interoperability Protocol (SDLIP-Core)
   This document describes the Simple Digital Library Interoperability Protocol (SDLIP), a protocol which enables clients to request searches to be performed over information sources, developed jointly with the Universities of California at Berkeley and Santa Barbara, the San Diego Supercomputer Centre and the Califo rnia Digital Library.
   [Original Article]

Cheshire

1. Cheshire II: Design and Evaluation of a Next-Generation Online Catalog System
   Ray R. Larson, Ralph Moon, Jerome McDonough, Lucy Kuntz, Paul O'Leary, 1995
   This document gives an interesting perspective on the problems that earlier generations of on-line catalogue systems have experienced and the solutions that Cheshire II is hoping to implement.
   [Original Article] [UKOLN digest]