Accessing Information from Globally Distributed Knowledge Repositories

Summary: Identifies technical barriers to cost‑effective universal access to multimedia in globally distributed knowledge repositories—heterogeneity, scalable indexing/querying, replication/caching, metadata, and access control. Highlights DB research agenda: federated architectures, mediation/semantic integration, and content‑aware indexing. (summarized by gpt-5-mini on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 1071
Venue: PODS
Year: 1996
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Overall Rank: 14,012 | 2.53%
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1. Alfred V. Aho

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