WAIS ( Wide Area Information Servers) Definition

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ALSO CALLED: Wide Area Information Servers
DEFINITION: WAIS (Wide Area Information Servers) is an Internet system in which specialized subject databases are created at multiple server locations, kept track of by a directory of servers at one location, and made accessible for searching by users with WAIS client programs. The user of WAIS is provided with or obtains a list of distributed databases. The user …
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Recent Vendor Reports on WAIS
Your request for WAIS resources returned limited or no results. The request has been expanded to include Information Retrieval Software resources.

Essential Solutions for Life Sciences sponsored by Inxight Software, Inc. PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Posted: 14 Jul 2004 \| Published: 01 Jul 2004 SUMMARY:The life sciences environment is more competitive and complex than it has ever been. TOPICS: Data Visualization Software \| Information Management Software \| Information Retrieval Software \| Life Sciences Industry

Essential Solutions for Financial Services sponsored by Inxight Software, Inc. PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Posted: 14 Jul 2004 \| Published: 01 Jul 2004 SUMMARY:In this new era of expanding regulation, with tough global competition driving the need to build and maintain customer trust and loyalty, you are under more pressure than ever before to fully leverage the true value of your business information. TOPICS: Data Visualization Software \| Financial Services Industry \| Information Management Software \| Information Retrieval Software

Inxight SmartDiscovery™: The Complete Solution for Enterprise Information Discovery sponsored by Inxight Software, Inc. DATA SHEET: Posted: 14 Jul 2004 \| Published: 01 Jul 2004 SUMMARY:Inxight SmartDiscovery is the most powerful information discovery solution available. TOPICS: Classification (Information Management) \| Data Visualization Software \| Information Management Software \| Information Retrieval Software \| Metadata

Inxight VizServer™: Speeds and Simplifies the Exploration sponsored by Inxight Software, Inc. DATA SHEET: Posted: 14 Jul 2004 \| Published: 01 Jul 2004 SUMMARY:With Inxight VizServer, users can visually navigate, explore, and understand large information collections to quickly find the information they need, boosting productivity and speeding product time-to-market. TOPICS: Data Visualization Software \| Information Management Software \| Information Retrieval Software

SAVVY™: Online Document Management System sponsored by Intersoft Group, Inc. PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Posted: 16 Feb 2004 \| Published: 01 Jan 2004 SUMMARY:SAVVY is a browser based document management system that lets you organize, search, view & print any document type that is stored at any physical location, from anywhere, in a secure environment. TOPICS: Document Management \| Document Management Software \| Information Retrieval Software

FastCode® sponsored by Language and Computing PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Posted: 06 Feb 2004 \| Published: 01 Jan 2003 SUMMARY:FastCode® analyzes natural clinical language input and then performs a search based on related medical concepts to retrieve the most accurate clinical codes. TOPICS: Information Retrieval Software \| Medical Software \| Natural Language Processing

TeSSI® sponsored by Language and Computing PRODUCT OVERVIEW: Posted: 06 Feb 2004 \| Published: 01 Jan 2003 SUMMARY:TeSSI® is a state-of-the-art tool that improves upon the existing search and retrieval tools by extracting the meaning out of medical free text and placing the resulting medical ‘concepts’ in the document index instead of terms. TOPICS: Indexing Software \| Information Retrieval Software \| Medical Software

WAIS DEFINITION (continued): … enters a search argument for a selected database and the client then accesses all the servers on which the database is distributed. The results provide a description of each text that meets the search requirements. The user can then retrieve the full text.

WAIS (pronounced "ways") uses its own Internet protocol, an extension of the Z39.50 standard (Information Retrieval Service Definition and Protocol Specification for Library Applications) of the National Information Standards Organization. Web users can use WAIS by either downloading a WAIS client and a "gateway" to the Web …
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