DiGIR

Distributed Generic Information Retrieval (DiGIR) is an open-source protocol used to search and retrieve information from multiple databases with dissimilar data sources. The DiGIR protocol used in FishNet 2 is a great improvement over the Z39.50 protocol used in the original FishNet, providing more flexibility to use with the internet and greater stability of the distributed network.

More information may be found on the University of Kansas Biodiversity Research Center page.