The gCube System - DIR Master Service
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This work is partially funded by the European Commission in the
context of the D4Science project (www.d4science.eu), under the 1st call of FP7 IST priority.

Authors
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* Fabio Simeoni (fabio.simeoni@cis.strath.ac.uk), University of Strathclyde, 
  Department of Computer & Information Sciences, Glasgow UK

Version and Release Date
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v. 1.1.1, 29/03/2010

Description
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The Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR) Master service supports the evaluation of unstructured queries across two or more autonomous collections
by providing collection selection, result fusion, and collection description functionalities.

Download information
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Source code is available from SVN:
http://svn.research-infrastructures.eu/public/d4science/gcube/trunk/dir/DIR_Master

Binaries can be downloaded from:
http://software.d4science.research-infrastructures.eu/

Documentation 
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Documentation is available on-line from the Projects Documentation Wiki:

https://gcube.wiki.gcube-system.org/gcube/index.php/Distributed_Information_Retrieval_Support_Framework

Licensing
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This software is licensed under the terms you may find in the file named "LICENSE" in this directory.