| Description: |
Grid Information Retrieval (GIR, or GridIR) is a specification for general-purpose, interoperable, distributed
information retrieval, using the computational grid, specifically OGSA, as a common platform. The architecture
described in this document seeks to address the requirements stated in GWD-R/draft-ggf-gir-requirements (the GridIR "
requirements document"), and proposes a model for distributed IR that draws from and builds on previous efforts toward
IR interoperability. The architecture distributes the processes of creating and querying IR systems, and the systems
themselves are federated and may be entirely decentralized. This paper outlines the architecture of GridIR.
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