Web Information Access Pattern

This solution provides access to Web information resources via a desktop Web browser. An NIH user can access NIH intranet, portal, and Internet websites utilizing a Web browser directly or can search these sites for key information. 

Intranet and Internet web servers, along with portal applications, can connect directly to:

• Document file servers storing HTML files and native file formats
• Content repositories connected to a web content management system
• Other document databases to serve up web content to the end user

For search-based information retrieval, the search engine application server can be accessed directly by an NIH user through the desktop Web browser via Web servers. The meta-indexer on the search engine platform indexes files located in these file servers, content repositories, and document databases.

Access to the intranet Web server and portal applications requires authorization as specified in the Security Architecture. 

Optionally, a robust enterprise-wide search engine application can index documents and other content (i.e., multimedia) found across the enterprise by connecting to other information systems.

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