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Cooperative Hierarchical Indexing Coordination

Introduction

TF-CHIC was a TERENA-funded task force concerned with the coordination of harvesting and indexing network resources. Work in the task force built upon existing standards and technologies, such as those employed in Harvest and the DESIRE and ROADS projects.

The task force spawned the CHIC-Pilot project that set up a pilot distributed indexing service based on Whois++, Harvest, ROADS and Z39.50 technology.

• A CHIC-Pilot demo search interfacewas developed but is no longer available.
• A report on "Standards in the CHIC-Pilot Distributed Indexing Architecture" is not longer available.

UKOLN staff who worked on TF-CHIC

Andy Powell

Local Activities

Here is a list of some of the work that was undertaken by UKOLN staff related to the CHIC-Pilot project:

• SOIF IANA-DUBLINCORE template type
• ROADS DUBLINCORE template type