STARTS: Stanford Proposal for Internet Meta-Searching

Summary: STARTS proposes an Internet meta-search protocol to query and merge results across heterogeneous sources. Distinctive as a group effort led by Stanford's Digital Library with partners, emphasizing governance and metadata exposure over formal standardization. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2948
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1997
Pagerank: 6.8030747e-05
Overall Rank: 3,737 | 74.03%
DOI: -

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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,133	Automatic Discovery of Language Models for Text Databases	1999	SIGMOD	0.00013765547
1,486	Distributed Search over the Hidden Web: Hierarchical Database Sampling and Selection	2002	VLDB	0.00011691409
1,910	Merging Ranks from Heterogeneous Internet Sources	1997	VLDB	0.00010121896
12,584	When one Sample is not Enough: Improving Text Database Selection Using Shrinkage	2004	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05
12,739	A Multi-Similarity Algebra	1998	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,263	Generalizing GLOSS to Vector-Space Databases and Broker Hierarchies	1995	VLDB	0.00012971135
3,118	The Effectiveness of GLOSS for the Text Database Discovery Problem	1994	SIGMOD	7.5400934e-05

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