Summary Object Interchange Format

World-Wide Web, protocol (SOIF) The attribute-value pair

record format which Harvest Brokers use to exchange

Harvest content summaries.

SOIF provides a means of bracketing collections of summary

objects, allowing Harvest Brokers to retrieve SOIF content

summaries for many objects in a single, efficient compressed

stream. Harvest Brokers provide support for querying SOIF

data using structured attribute-value queries and many other

types of queries.

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(1996-09-16)