Introduction and question

Sankar (sankar@fcrao1.phast.umass.edu)
Fri, 12 Aug 1994 16:33:55 -0400

sounds like a useful idea. If you don't want to use the overhead of
running a Lisp executable (and if you are a true lisper !!), you may
want to check out the Scheme-48 stuff being done at the MIT AI Lab. I
don't have the specific reference to their homepage, but there is a
home page for the ai-lab and from there you can find out about how
scheme-48 has been used in a similar way. Scheme 48 is extremely
small, BTW.

If you are going to get real serious about building a large
infrastructure around search and retrieval of stuff like what you
mentioned, you may want to check out the stuff happening around KQML
(Knowledge Query Manipulation Language). There is a home page at
cs.umbc.edu and there is another at ksl.stanford.edu (and other
places). KQML has been used by Enterprise Integration Technology (home
page at eit.com) for similar (not same) types of integration (with
mail and http).

Good luck

Surf along.

Sankar