Project GRACE: A grid based search tool for the global digital library

GRACE - Grid Search and Categorization Engine (http://www.grace-ist.org) is an ongoing EU project. GRACE is an attempt to apply an innovative Grid-based solution that will meet the challenges of searching a global heterogeneous collection of documents. The goal of the project is to build a distributed search and categorization engine that will run on the Enabling Grids for E-science in Europe (EGEE), the successor to the European Data Grid (EDG). This paper is a description of the project and its potential as a framework for a global ETD search tool.