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Dienst: an architecture for distributed document libraries
Communications of the ACM
NCSTRL: design and deployment of a globally distributed digital library
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - digital libraries: Part 1
The open archives initiative: building a low-barrier interoperability framework
Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
SDLIP + STARTS = SDARTS a protocol and toolkit for metasearching
Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
The Penguin Concise Dictionary of Computing
The Penguin Concise Dictionary of Computing
Multimedia Information Retrieval and Management: Technological Fundamentals and Applications
Multimedia Information Retrieval and Management: Technological Fundamentals and Applications
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Existing Web interoperability protocols are, arguably, overly complex as a result of each protocol being designed by a different group, providing a single service, and having its own syntax and vocabulary. Some standards, such as RSS, are popular and are designed with simplicity in mind and include easy to understand documentation, which is a key reason for its high adoption levels. However, the majority of protocols are complex, making them relatively difficult for programmers to understand and implement and thus hampering communication between heterogeneous information systems. This paper proposes a possible new direction for high-level interoperability protocols by focusing on simplicity. The High-level Interoperability Protocol - Common Framework (HIP-CF) was designed and evaluated as a proof of concept that, if interoperability is simplified and it is made easier for programmers to understand and implement protocols, it could lead to having more interoperable systems as well as increased protocol adoption levels. Evaluation showed that this is a reasonable view and that there is a lot of room for improvement when it comes to interoperability protocols.