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GlOSS: A Scalable Text-Database Discovery Tool
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WHAT IS GlOSS?

GlOSS is a system being developed at Stanford University that helps 
you find data sources that are relevant to your queries.

To query GlOSS, just give it keywords describing the information you want.
GlOSS will display a ranked list of the sources likely to contain 
the documents you're looking for. 

The GlOSS server is accessible through a World-Wide Web interface, at
URL http://gloss.stanford.edu.
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WHAT IS A GlOSS COLLECTOR?

A GlOSS collector harvests information on data sources, 
and transmits it to the GlOSS server.
The GlOSS server in turn uses this information to choose 
the most promising information sources for a given query. 

The current version of the GlOSS collector works
on data sources that have been previously indexed by WAIS. 
The WAIS versions supported are the following:

  * freeWAIS-sf-1.0 
  * freeWAIS-0.3 
  * freeWAIS-0.2 
  * WAIS-8-b4.1 

Once the collector has gathered information on a data source,
it sends this information to the GlOSS server either through email or 
through a TCP connection.
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HOW CAN YOU RUN THE GlOSS COLLECTOR ON YOUR DATA?

If you want to have GlOSS index your data source, you need to 
get a copy of the collector code, install it on your computer, and
run it. This is a very simple process.  
Please refer to http://gloss.stanford.edu/collector.html
to learn how to do this. 
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For more information on GlOSS, please check:
  
  http://gloss.stanford.edu 

Please address any questions or comments to:

  gloss@db.stanford.edu.
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