Implementation of the Librarian

Abstract

This chapter introduces the P2P-based implementation of the ‘Librarian of the Web’, called ‘WebEngine’. The client software’s components responsible for the storage, retrieval and semantic analysis of text documents, for the decentralised library construction and maintenance as well as for the execution of local and network-wide search tasks are described. The first part of this chapter discusses the runnable, basic implementation of the WebEngine while the second part focusses on the components and functions to be integrated and tested in the near future. As the WebEngine makes heavy use of graph databases for the storage and retrieval of co-occurrences, their role in future search and information systems is discussed, too.