Related Development Initiatives

A/WWW Enterprises
Designed and built key components of ASF freeware, develops Internet-based client/server information systems

Basis Systeme Netzwerk (BSN), Munich <http://www.bsn.com/>
Building "ASF-Node in a box", a plug-and-play network appliance that provides ASF node functions including Search and Retrieval, among other things such as mail services and access router functionality

Center for the Integration of Natural Hazards Information <http://cindi.usgs.gov/>
Deployed several copies of ASF in Honduras to initiate a geospatial information infrastructure

Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval <http://ciir.cs.umass.edu/>
Intends to use software or services related to ASF, specifics dependent on partnerships

CommunityPlanet (formerly Monticello)
Investigating ASF as freeware tool for participants to provide search of Community Information records

DESIRE <http://www.desire.org/> and ROADS <http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/roads/>
ASF is proposed to be integrated with a Distributed Indexing Protocol Toolkit being developed by a consortium of higher education institutions across Europe, with European Commission funding

Etymon Systems <http://www.etymon.com>
Designed search engine architecture for ASF, supports Isearch search engine in ASF freeware

Geospatial Data Clearinghouse
ASF freeware will be used as foundation for next version of Clearinghouse

Hiawatha Island Software <http://www.hisoftware.com/>
Builds components of ASF systems, including TagGen product for META tagging of HTML documents, porting ASF freeware to the Windows NT operating environment

ht://Dig <http://www.htdig.org/>
Integrating ht://Dig with ASF, can add "fuzzy searching"

IndexData <http://www.indexdata.dk/>
Builds components of ASF systems, including key parts of the freeware: YAZ protocol toolkit, Zebra search engine, and ZAP gateway

Island Edge Research <http://www.islandedge.com/>
Designed and built key components of ASF freeware

National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) Metadata Clearinghouse <http://www.nbii.gov/>
Developing a Clearinghouse "bio-bot" and other tools using ASF

National Center for Supercomputer Applications (NCSA) <http://emerge.ncsa.uiuc.edu/>
Developing profile-neutral Z39.50 components, in a server/gateway/client configuration

Red Hat Software <http://www.redhat.com/>
Shipping ASF with PowerTools as part of Red Hat software distribution