WAIS Wide-Area Information Server. A client/server software system that provides sophisticated indexing of files based on all words in each file and provides scoring and "relevance feedback" of documents to its client.
WAIS
Wide-area Information Server (or Service or System); Western Antarctic Ice Sheet
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The WAIS software underlying protocol- Z39.50, provides search capability, but has no browse capability.
System capability to find a defined feature or set of features in a database.
In regards to the World Wide Web, they also access multiple communication systems including WAIS, Gopher, FTP and telnet.
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For simple browsing and searching, users can access EIS information through standard Web/WAIS tools (Fig. 1). Thus, Web users gain full browse and search access to EIS contents, without having to install or even know much about EIS.
 See also: Map, Network, Server, Software, Record
  
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