- DADS is a huge database of ### records, allowing students and
- researchers at DTU (###) to search and order articles from several
- different databases at once. The database contains
- literature on all engineering subjects. It's available on-line
- through a web gateway at
- http://www.dtv.dk/search/index_e.htm
- though only to members of the university.
+ DADS is a huge database of more than ten million records, totalling
+ over ten gigabytes of data. The records are metadata about academic
+ journal articles, primarily scientific; about 10% of these
+ metadata records link to the full text of the articles they
+ describe, a body of about a terabyte of information (although the
+ full text is not indexed.)
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ It allows students and researchers at DTU (Danmarks Tekniske
+ Universitet, the Technical College of Denmark) to find and order
+ articles from multiple databases in a single query. The database
+ contains literature on all engineering subjects. It's available
+ on-line through a web gateway, though currently only to registered
+ users.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ More information can be found at
+ <ulink url="http://www.dtv.dk/help/dads/index_e.htm"/>
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2>
+ <title>NLI-Z39.50 - a Natural Language Interface for Libraries</title>
+ <para>
+ Fernuniversität Hagen in Germany have developed a natural
+ language interface for access to library databases.
+ <ulink url="http://ki212.fernuni-hagen.de/nli/NLIintro.html"/>
+ In order to evaluate this interface for recall and precision, they
+ chose Zebra as the basis for retrieval effectiveness. The Zebra
+ server contains a copy of the GIRT database, consisting of more
+ than 76000 records in SGML format (bibliographic records from
+ social science), which are mapped to MARC for presentation.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ (GIRT is the German Indexing and Retrieval Testdatabase. It is a
+ standard German-language test database for intelligent indexing
+ and retrieval systems. See
+ <ulink url="http://www.gesis.org/forschung/informationstechnologie/clef-delos.htm"/>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Evaluation will take place as part of the TREC/CLEF campaign 2003
+ <ulink url="http://clef.iei.pi.cnr.it or http://www4.eurospider.ch/CLEF/"/>