Distributed resource discovery is an essential step for information retrieval
and/or providing information services. This step is usually used for determining
the location of an information or data repository which has relevant information.
The most fundamental challenge is the usual lack of semantic interoperability of
the requested resource. In accordance with the invention, a method is disclosed
where distributed repositories achieve semantic interoperability through the exchange
of examples and, optionally, classifiers. The outcome of the inventive method can
be used to determine whether common labels are referring to the same semantic meaning.
