a system of hardware, software, and personnel devoted to making government information, especially web-based information, more easily accessible to the public through specialized indexing, shared subject terminology, and search engines
Government Information Locator Service. a decentralized collection of locators and associated information services used by the public either directly or through intermediaries to find public information throughout the U.S. Federal government.
Global Information Locator Service (formerly Government Information Locator Service), a metadata standard used by Federal and other governmental agencies. For more information, see the GILS Web site at http://www.gils.net.
Government Information Locator Service. Metadata format created by the US Federal Government in order to provide a means of locating information generated by government agencies. http://www.gils.net/index.html
Global Information Locator Service. One of the supported NSDL metadata standards (for more information, see http://metamanagement.comm.nsdl.org/outline.html.) http://www.gils.net
Global Information Locator Service, also Government Information Locator Service which governs the organisation of United States government information.
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Online database developed and maintained by GPO as a tool to assist with locating federal government information that is published electronically. Links subject searches to online information. http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/gils
The Government Information Locator Service. This was developed in the United States as a distributed collection of 'gateways' providing public access to information from government. GILS has since been widely adopted in other countries around the world, and a closely related Global Information Locator Service was initiated under the auspices of the G7 countries. The GILS Profile [] for Z39.50 is one way in which these distributed gateways may be searched.
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Global Information Locator Service. GILS embraces open standards to implement interoperable searching across diverse, decentralized information 'locators' to return references to all kinds of electronic and non-electronic information resources. Locators are implemented as common semantics for characterizing information resources, i.e. common metadata semantics. Formally known as Government Information Locator Service.
Government Information Locator Service. Service de localisation de l'information gouvernementale Developed in the U.S. and now being adopted in other countries, GILS is a decentralized collection of systems containing databases of GILS records describing location and access information for publicly-available government information resources. Z39.30 is the access mechanism that has been specified for searching these systems, but they can also be searched through the Web. There is a GILS-USMARC mapping, and an SGML profile has been developed for GILS records. Source: National Library of Canada – A Glossary of Digital Library Standards, Protocols and Formats
Global Information Location Service