Showcase - examples by aspects of GILS approach

Search Portals | - Portals enabled by GILS can span all information types and management techniques--Web pages, databases, directories, document management systems, file systems, e-mail systems, UDDI and other XML records, etc.
- North Carolina GILS | Seamless (Essex Citizens Information) | CIESIN Information Gateway | National Biological Information Infrastructure |
Precise Search | - In addition to full text and bibliographic search (e.g., Title, Author, Subject, Date), GILS uses many other kinds of "metadata"
- Minnesota GeoGateway | U.S. Patent and Trademark Office | Texas Records and Information Locator Service |
Topical Search | - GILS supports search using sets of subject and other terms, whether by human or machine-aided cataloging, or by automatic classification
- CERES Environmental Information by Theme | Marco Polo (Internet content for the classroom) | Gateway to Educational Materials |
Common User Interface | - While Web portals provide information formatted for an expected audience, GILS enables content to be customized for many audiences
- Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive | Library of Congress Z39.50 Gateway | Massachusetts Digital Orthophotos |
Collections of Locators | - GILS locators can act as an inventory of individual items, or linked in series up to highly aggregated "directories of directories"
- U.S. Department of Defense Resource Locator | CEOS Information Locator Service | EEA Global Environmental Information Locator Service |
Automated Gathering | - Web spiders that gather information automatically are being used with GILS
- Mercury | CERES | Washington State GILS | DESIRE (Development of a European Service for Information on Research and Education) |
Distributed Search | - GILS is being used for searching multiple sources and showing combined results
- Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network | National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse | Before | and After | (proposed U.S. Federal Government Information Clearinghouse)

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