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 consensusExample MetaServer projects
Typical, widespread implementations of MetaServers are: * Meta-Search-Engines * DNS MetaServers * Protein Structure and Function Prediction Gateways * Computer Game MetaServers * Text Mining MetaServers (e.g. BioCreative Metaserver - BCMS) Enterprise application integration Internet architecture