D’mello, Collin; Jha, Amit(INFLIBNET Center., February 25, 2009)
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Abstract:
The goal of electronic content discovery with Metasearching is to investigate issues related to locating,
retrieving, and promulgating information in large networked environments. The Internet and WWW
provide a challenging environment for deployment of these services. The needs of information
publishers - to maximize audience reach - and the user - to minimize information overload - require
advanced technical solutions and investigative research. As the deep web of information grows at an
exponential rate, efforts to make the technology more manageable and affordable are highly in
demand. Applying advanced information retrieval techniques i.e. meta-search and open link resolver
are some approach to such efforts. In this paper we present our attempt to apply open source initiatives
for retrieval model based on NISO Standards, relevance mechanisms and a meta search technique as
an integrated electronic resource discovery system for the Deep Web. This paper discusses challenges
and issues involved in Meta-Searching, as well as practical issues such as retrieval effectiveness,
usability and scalability.