The Integration of the Organization Engine and Library 2000

In the contemporary research environment, users access and manipulate information gathered from diverse data sources. The Organization Engine is a prototype being developed at the Cambridge Research Lab of Digital Equipment Corporation for the incorporation of data from disparate sources into a local homogeneous framework. It relies on information management based on the notion of retrieval and manipulation through the organization of the data in a non strict hierarchical structure. In order to fully exploit the benefits of such an environment, the Organization Engine must provide access to remotely located, search based, information retrieval systems. "Library 2000" is an implementation of such a system aimed at tackling the issues of the fully integrated and distributed electronic library of tomorrow. This thesis incorporates the remotely located, search based, information retrieval capabilities of "Library 2000" into the data management scheme of the Organization Engine. It utilizes the concepts of unique record identifiers and query links. Two access facilities based on these different notions are implemented from the Organization Engine "client" application to the "Library 2000" "server" application.