Wide Area Information Servers
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Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS) is an early networked information retrieval system and protocol that enabled users to search and access distributed databases over the internet.
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| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
networked information retrieval system
ⓘ
search protocol ⓘ |
| abbreviation | WAIS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| basedOn | Z39.50 information retrieval protocol ⓘ |
| communicationModel | client–server model ⓘ |
| contemporaryWith |
Archie
NERFINISHED
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Gopher NERFINISHED ⓘ Veronica NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| dataFormat |
full-text document databases
ⓘ
structured text databases ⓘ |
| designedFor |
accessing remote databases
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cross-server information retrieval ⓘ searching distributed information sources ⓘ |
| developer |
Brewster Kahle
NERFINISHED
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Others at Thinking Machines Corporation ⓘ Thinking Machines Corporation NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
WAIS client
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WAIS indexer ⓘ WAIS server ⓘ |
| historicalPeriod |
early Internet era
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pre-Web era ⓘ |
| inception |
around 1989
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late 1980s ⓘ |
| influenced |
digital library systems
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early web search concepts ⓘ |
| influencedBy | library information retrieval standards ⓘ |
| license | both commercial and freely available implementations ⓘ |
| mainSubject |
distributed databases
ⓘ
information retrieval ⓘ |
| networkProtocol | TCP/IP NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| notableImplementation | freeWAIS NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| queryLanguage | simple text-based query syntax ⓘ |
| replacedBy |
World Wide Web search engines
ⓘ
modern web-based information retrieval systems ⓘ |
| resultFormat | ranked list of matching documents ⓘ |
| runsOn |
Internet
NERFINISHED
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wide area networks ⓘ |
| status | largely obsolete ⓘ |
| supportsFunction |
distributed search
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document retrieval ⓘ federated search across multiple servers ⓘ full-text search ⓘ indexing of text databases ⓘ keyword search ⓘ relevance ranking of results ⓘ |
| typicalClientPlatform |
Unix systems
GENERATED
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early personal computers GENERATED ⓘ |
| usesProtocol | WAIS protocol NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| usesStandard | ANSI/NISO Z39.50 NERFINISHED ⓘ |
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