Towards Collaborative Search in Digital Libraries Using Peer-to-Peer Technology.
Matthias Bender, Sebastian Michel, Christian Zimmer, Gerhard Weikum · 2004
Abstract. 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. 1