Lecture 26: Architectures for Cyberspace
Internet Information Systems Architecture The Structure Beneath the Flash
In Today's Talk
Some Information Discovery Tasks
Basic Tasks of Internet Discovery Agents
Information Users Want to...
Information Providers want to...
Some characteristics of today's information infrastructure
Layers of information services
Layers of information structure
Example 1: Netfind
Example 2: WAIS
Example 3: World Wide Web (1990)
The WWW Explosion (1993-?)
Obraczka Taxonomy of Approaches
Some data interconnection topologies
Some problems of Scale
Example 4: Indie
As the Web scales...
Data interoperability
What's a format?
Why Won't Format Problem Go Away?
What's wrong with MIME?
Other approaches to new formats
Unfamiliar formats on the Web
What You Do With TOM
TOM: Behind the Scenes
TOM s Approach: Mediators for type information, services
What the Type Brokers Know
Relations between types
As TOM scales...
Some Lessons to Take Away...
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