This page provides access to the components of the reference implementation of STARTS. STARTS is the result of an informal "standards" effort that we (Luis Gravano, Kevin Chang, Hector Garcia-Molina, Andreas Paepcke, and Carl Lagoze) are coordinating at Stanford. This project developed a simple protocol that text search engines should follow to facilitate searching and indexing multiple collections of text documents. The STARTS specification is available in both HTML and PostScript.
You can access Starts services using an input form that links to a running version of the reference implementation.