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Information search
1 Introduction
This Section identifies the functionalities of the services that enable humans to discover the information the need in a Metaverse Instance or in a specified group of Metaverse Instances.
Discovery
Recommendation
2 Discovery
This subsection identifies and defines the Functionalities related to Information Discovery.
| Area | 8. Search |
| Subarea | 8.1 Discovery |
| Title | 8.1.1 Information collection |
| Description | A Metaverse Manager or Operator collects, organises, and makes available to a Discovery Service Provider Users information about the Environments in their Metaverse Instance. |
| Comment | This is a function similar to the one provided by today’s search engines. |
| Area | 8. Search |
| Subarea | 8.1 Discovery |
| Title | 8.1.2 Search API |
| Description | A Metaverse Environment exposes API enabling a search engine to access the Environment’s Metadata. |
| Comment | This requires the specification of Environment Metadata such as content, events, services etc. offered, the type of Interoperability, the hardware functionalities required to access the content, free or pay, etc. |
| Area | 8. Search |
| Subarea | 8.1 Discovery |
| Title | 8.1.3 Entity Search |
| Description | Users can search for any type of Entities in one or more Metaverse Instances. |
| Comment | A User can search for a particular NFT with attached conditions. |
| Area | 8. Information search |
| Subarea | 8.1 Discovery |
| Title | 8.1.4 Global Metaverse Search |
| Description | A User requests a Discovery Service Provider to discover an Entity, based on Rights acquired in Metaverse Environments or Instances. |
| Comments | The User can specify their discovery requests by giving:
1. Description 1.1. Verbal description 1.2. Exemplary Entity 2. Search range 2.1. Verbal description 2.2. List of Instances/Environments to be searched. |
3 Recommendation
This subsection identifies and defines the Functionalities related to Recommendations.
| Area | 8. Search |
| Subarea | 8.2 Recommendation |
| Title | 8.2.1 Notification |
| Description | A Metaverse Environment notifies Users about potentially interesting Metaverse Experiences. |
| Comment | A User has subscribed to a notification Service that notifies them of specific Events. |
