(SOIF) The attribute-value pair record format which Harvest BrokeRS use to exchange Harvest content summaries. SOIF provides a means of bracketing collections of summary objects, allowing Harvest BrokeRS to retrieve SOIF content summaries for many objects in a single, efficient compressed stream. Harvest BrokeRS provide support for querying SOIF data using structured attribute-value queries and many other types of queries. . (1996-09-16)