Ideal Distributed Search Protocol

• Metadata summaries of contents, standard taxonomy?

• Query syntax (Boolean with adjacencies)

• Field name translation (domain, language)

• Total number matching

• Estimate of hits for each query term

• Relevance scoring (tricky problem)

  • Send a relevance algorithm such as TF/IDF?

• Results with standard XML tags

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