A protocol and server for a distributed digital technical report library

  • Authors:
  • James R. Davis;Carl Lagoze

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • A protocol and server for a distributed digital technical report library
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

This paper describes {\bf Dienst} -a Distributed Interactive Extensible Network Server for Techreports. The Dienst protocol is based on the World Wide Web protocol HTTP, and provides an object-oriented interface to a document model. The document model allows one to access the document as a whole or by named sub-parts and it supports multiple formats for the document. We have also implemented a gateway from a Web server that supports the Dienst protocol. Using a World Wide Web client (e.g. Mosaic), a user may search for documents at distributed sites, browse ``thumbnail'''' (very small page) images, view the full documents, and print them.