Overview
We now have the tools to pursue the grand challenges of Information retrieval (?):
- standard retrieval environment (Web) and interface/client (Web Browser).
- Standardized search/retrieval mechanisms (HTTP Post/Get, SQL, Z39.50).
- Standard language for describing and transforming content and metadata (XML, XSLT, DC, RDF, Schemas).
- Standard transport mechanisms to connect heterogeneous content (HTTP, B2B, SOAP).
Candidate set of ‘best practices’.