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Gerhard is a fully automatic indexing and classification system of the German World-Wide Web for integrated searching and browsing. It consists of a database-driven robot that collects academically relevant documents, a fast classification module, a database and a trilingual (German, English, and French) user-interface for the service itself as well as for maintaining the service. The integration of searching and browsing mechanisms allows the user to look for “similar” documents very easily. At the moment there are 400 areas of the German WWW defined that are considered academically relevant, with more than a million documents classified and indexed.
The project GERHARD was started in October 1996 and finished in March 1998 by BIS University Oldenburg in Cooperation with OFFIS e.V. Oldenburg and with ISIV (Institute for Semantic Information Processing) Univ. Osnabrück. It has been funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Since 1 April 1998 the service has gone public and can be accessed via http://www.gerhard.de.
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Carstensen, KU., Diekmann, B., Möller, G. (2000). GERHARD (German Harvest Automated Retrieval and Directory). In: Decker, R., Gaul, W. (eds) Classification and Information Processing at the Turn of the Millennium. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57280-7_48
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