Willow: a uniform search interface.
The objective of the Willow Project is to develop a uniform search interface that allows a diverse community of users to retrieve information from heterogeneous network-based information resources. Willow separates the user interface from the database management or information retrieval system. It provides a graphic user interface to a variety of information resources residing on diverse hosts, and using different search engines and idiomatic query languages through networked-based client-server and [...]
Author(s): Ketchell, D S, Freedman, M M, Jordan, W E, Lightfoot, E M, Heyano, S, Libbey, P A
DOI: 10.1136/jamia.1996.96342647