Introduction

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What is MERESCO

MERESCO is a next generation library of components for (meta)data management.

It supports creating flexible, scalable and open (meta)data management systems such as repositories, search engines and archives.

Reasons to use MERESCO

Users state the following decisive features:

• Its exceptional openness with regard to connecting data sources
• Its broad support for open standards
• The possibilities, accuracy and performance of the Faceted Search
• The scalability and performance of the system as a whole
• The convenience to add custom components

Provided functionality

The most important functions of MERESCO are:

• integration — mix various data sources into a single uniform, consolidated data source.
• search — fast response complex queries, facets, suggestions, clustering, tag clouds, autocomplete,...
• archive &mdash clean, controlled and scalable storage and retrieve of primary versus secondary data
• open archive — out-of-the-box OAI service-providing including harvesting, supporting the complete protocol
• repository — easy OAI data-providing
• web 2.0 — real-time tagging, rating and annotation

Innovation

A continuous stream of recent scientific results finds its way into MERESCO components. Exceptional quality control makes sure these components are both sound and robust.

Design & development

Seek You Too designed and developed MERESCO under assignments of SURFnet, SURFfoundation and Kennisnet. The four of us now license MERESCO under GPL.

Others contributing significantly are:

• Royal Netherlands academy of Arts and Sciences
• Delft University of Technology
• University of Tilburg
• Erasmus University Medical Center
• Capgemini

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