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What is ASF Freeware?

April 26, 2017ASF freeware

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What is ASF Freeware?

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ASF is a freely available software distribution that combines several open standards to implement a GILS-compliant resource location system for information communities. More precisely, ASF is the architectural model for how various components of the system fit together. The individual components themselves may be interchanged with other ASF-compatible software or upgraded to commercial implementations. ASF provides an integrated system for searching documents and document metadata via HTTP and ISO 23950. It also provides a distributed resource discovery mechanism that can integrate searching among a community of ASF servers. ASF freeware supports automatic indexing of the content of World Wide Web sites. An ASF Gatherer Service extracts and compiles documents using GILS-compliant search interfaces as well as hyperlinks and directories. A GILS-compliant ASF query service supports full-text, fielded Boolean, and spatial queries using a combination of human-crafted and automatically gener