Here an additional methodological comment is in order. As it was discussed in Gilbert
et al. (2004); Harrington et al. (2003); and Wright, Gordon, Paprzycki, Williams,
and Harrington (2003) there exists two distinct ways of managing information in an
infomediary (Galant, Jakubczye, & Paprzycki, 2002) system like the one discussed
here (with possible intermediate solutions). Information can be indexed??”where
only references to the actual information available in repositories residing outside
of ???the system??? are stored. Or, information can be gathered??”where actual content
is brought to the central repository. In the original design of the travel support sys-
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tem (Angryk, Galant, Gordon, & Paprzycki, 2002; Gilbert et al., 2004; Harrington
et al., 2003; Wright et al., 2003) we planned to follow the indexing path, which is
more philosophically aligned with the main ideas behind the Semantic Web.
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