title: The Stanford InfoBus and Its Service Layers: Augmenting the Internet with Higher-Level Information Management Protocols creator: Roscheisen, M. creator: Baldonado, M. creator: Chang, C. creator: Gravano, L. creator: Ketchpel, S. creator: Paepcke, A. subject: Digital Libraries subject: Distributed Systems description: The Stanford InfoBus is a prototype infrastructure developed as part of the Stanford Digital Libraries Project to extend the current Internet protocols with a suite of higher-level information management protocols. This paper surveys the five service layers pro vided by the Stanford InfoBus: protocols for managing items and collections (DLIOP), metadata (SMA), search (STARTS), payment (UPAI), and rights and obligations (FIRM). publisher: Stanford InfoLab date: 1998 type: Techreport type: NonPeerReviewed format: application/pdf identifier: http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/318/1/1998-25.pdf identifier: Roscheisen, M. and Baldonado, M. and Chang, C. and Gravano, L. and Ketchpel, S. and Paepcke, A. (1998) The Stanford InfoBus and Its Service Layers: Augmenting the Internet with Higher-Level Information Management Protocols. Technical Report. Stanford InfoLab. (Publication Note: Digital Libraries in Computer Science: The MeDoc Approach, Lecture Notes in Computer Science No. 1392, Springer.) relation: http://ilpubs.stanford.edu:8090/318/