Testbed Difficulties
Original plan was to modify Mosaic for search
- Web became commercial -- we lost control of developers
Plan to use standard BRS as fulltext backend
- needed to use SGML specific OpenText search engine
good-quality SGML simply not available
- we had to train every publisher; nothing was ready
SGML interactive display not journal quality
- physics requires equations -- hard to display well
Custom software hard to deploy widely
- Web widespread but too lowend for professional search