Standards for Search Systems

["Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@ingr.com>]

http://www.search.gov/interop/requirements.html

Worth a look.  From:

Categorization of Government Information (CGI) Working Group
U.S. Federal Interagency Committee on Government Information

Statement of Requirements for Search Interoperability

Thanks to Eliot Christian <echristi@usgs.gov> for posting this to an OASIS 
list.

len