Wide area information server
Wide Area Information Server (WAIS) is a
Peat Marwick.WAIS did not adhere to either the standard nor its
History
The WAIS protocol and servers were promoted by
Inspired by the WAIS project on full-text databases and emerging
With the advent of Z39.50:1992, the termination of support for free WAIS by Thinking Machines and the establishment of WAIS Inc as a commercial venture, the U.S. National Science Foundation funded the Clearinghouse for Networked Information Discovery and Retrieval (CNIDR) to promote Internet search and discovery systems, open source and standards.[3] CNIDR created a new, free open-source WAIS. This was the first freeWAIS based on the wais-8-b5 codebase of TMC, with a wholly new software suite Isite based upon Z39.50:1992 using Isearch as its full-text search engine.
Ulrich Pfeifer and Norbert Gövert of the computer science department of the
Inspired by WAIS' "Directory of Servers",
Directory of Servers
Thinking Machines Corp provided a service called the Directory of Servers. It was a WAIS server like any other information source except containing information about the other WAIS servers on the Internet. A WAIS server with TMC WAIS code creates a special record containing
People
Two of the developers of WAIS,
WAIS Inc was sold to
WAIS and Gopher
Public WAIS is often used as a full-text
The Web's data model is similar to the gopher model, except that menus are generalized to hypertext documents. In both cases, simple file servers generate the menus or hypertext directly from the file structure of a server. The Web's hypertext model permits the author more freedom to communicate the options available to the reader, as it can include headings and various forms of list structure.[5]
References
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- ^ "Award Abstract #9216963: Clearinghouse for Network Information Discovery Retrieval". National Science Foundation. 1992-11-13. Retrieved 2016-03-29.
- ^ "AOL Buys Everyone". tidbits.com. 5 June 1995. Retrieved 2017-05-24.
- ^ a b Berners-Lee, Tim. "The World-Wide Web". The New Media Reader. The MIT Press.
- ISBN 978-8121912006.
External links
- Wide Area Information Servers (WAIS) launch lecture (Xerox PARC, 1991)
- RFC1625: WAIS over Z39.50-1988 M. St. Pierre, J. Fullton, K. Gamiel, J. Goldman, B. Kahle, J. Kunze, H. Morris, F. Schiettecatte, June 1994
- RFC 4156: The wais URI Scheme P. Hoffman, August 2005
- The Z39.50 Information Retrieval Standard Part I: A Strategic View of Its Past, Present and Future, Clifford A. Lynch, D-Lib Magazine, April 1997
- Usage of WHOIS through the swais command: "EFF's (Extended) Guide to the Internet - Wide-Area Information Servers". www2.cs.duke.edu. 1994. Retrieved 2020-01-26.