Part IV 
Standards for InformationRetrieval Systems
Information retrieval systems that are entirely stand-alone can, in principal, be developed any way their designers choose, within the constraints of available computing resources. However, today, information resources are everywhere networked together. As soon as two IR systems need to talk to each other, or information is to be sent over a network, then it becomes necessary to develop common standards that can be used by developers to enable the various systems to inter-operate. To many people, “standards” sounds like a boring topic of little possible interest. In fact, however, heated debates ...
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