17 Sep 2003
CS 6210 – Module 6
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STARTS: A Metasearching Protocol
¡Defines:
lQuery language
lResults format
lMetadata for the collection
l
¡No specified transport layer or implementation
¡Built to assist metasearchers. 
Example of metadata:
Stemming = no
 # of docs = 20,000
…
Diabetes è  TF:12, DF: 4
XML è TF:1200, DF:750
…
Query Operators
Frequency of Collection