Aquarelle is a three-year project supported by the Telematics Applicat
ions Programme of the European Union, aiming at designing a resource d
iscovery system on the Internet, applied to cultural heritage document
ation. The system relies on the Z39.50 protocol to support access to h
eterogeneous databases, including SGML document repositories, Its most
original features are direct linking from SGML documents to database
records, an advanced link management facility, and query broadcasting
to dynamically selected databases. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All
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