< World-Wide Web , protocol > (SOIF) The attribute-value pair record format which Harvest Brokers use to exchange Harvest content summaries.
SOIF provides a means of bracketing collections of summary objects, allowing Harvest Brokers to retrieve SOIF content summaries for many objects in a single, efficient compressed stream. Harvest Brokers provide support for querying SOIF data using structured attribute-value queries and many other types of queries.
http://www.ust.hk/Harvest/brokers/soifhelp.html .
(1996-09-16)