Summary Object Interchange Format
Summary Object Interchange Format
(World-Wide Web, protocol)SOIF provides a means of bracketing collections of summaryobjects, allowing Harvest Brokers to retrieve SOIF contentsummaries for many objects in a single, efficient compressedstream. Harvest Brokers provide support for querying SOIFdata using structured attribute-value queries and many othertypes of queries.
http://ust.hk/Harvest/brokers/soifhelp.html.