Towards Collaborative Search in Digital Libraries Using Peer-to-Peer Technology

We consider the problem of collaborative search across a large number of digital libraries and query routing strategies in a peerto-peer (P2P) environment. Both digital libraries and users are equally viewed as peers and, thus, as part of the P2P network. Our system provides a versatile platform for a scalable search engine combining local index structures of autonomous peers with a global directory based on a distributed hash table (DHT) as an overlay network.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: DELOS
• Authors: Matthias Bender, Sebastian Michel, Christian Zimmer, Gerhard Weikum
• Keywords: DELOS 2004, DELOS 2007, Digital Libraries, P2P Network, Query Routing Strategies