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What is MERESCO

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

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

Why MERESCO

In order to help understand the extend of MERESCO's abilities, we have listed some of the many advantages and decisive features that MERESCO brings, as stated by its users.

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

Functionality Rendered

The most important functions of MERESCO are:

• Integration — mix various data sources into a single uniform, consolidated data source.
• Search — fast response to complex queries, facets, suggestions, clustering, tag clouds, autocomplete, and many more...
• Archive &mdash clean, controlled and scalable storage and retrievement of primary versus secondary data
• Open archive — out-of-the-box OAI service-providing which includes both the harvesting and supporting of 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 ensures that these components are both sound and robust.

Design & Development

Surfnet, SurfFoundation and Kennisnet assigned MERESCO's design and development to Seek You Too. In partnership with these, Seek You Too now licenses MERESCO under General Public License (GPL).

Other Significant Contributors to MERESCO are:

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

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