Metaserver
A MetaServer is considered a central broker providing a collated view for dispersed web resources. It is used to collect data from various web services, web pages, databases, or other online resources/repositories and then present the combined results to the client using a standard web protocol.Styles of use
The purpose of such a system is to provide one or several of the following:
- a unified view on multiple resources
- easy comparison of the data
- standardized access to different repositories
- calibration of the data
- determining the data consensus
Example MetaServer projects
Typical, widespread implementations of MetaServers are:
