+ <section id="emilda-ils">
+ <title>Emilda open source ILS</title>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://www.emilda.org/">Emilda</ulink>
+ is a complete Integrated Library System, released under the
+ GNU General Public License. It has a
+ full featured Web-OPAC, allowing comprehensive system management
+ from virtually any computer with an Internet connection, has
+ template based layout allowing anyone to alter the visual
+ appearance of Emilda, and is
+ XML based language for fast and easy portability to virtually any
+ language.
+ Currently, Emilda is used at three schools in Espoo, Finland.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ As a surplus, 100% MARC compatibility has been achieved using the
+ Zebra Server from Index Data as backend server.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="reindex-ils">
+ <title>ReIndex.Net web based ILS</title>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://www.reindex.net/index.php?lang=en">Reindex.net</ulink>
+ is a netbased library service offering all
+ traditional functions on a very high level plus many new
+ services. Reindex.net is a comprehensive and powerful WEB system
+ based on standards such as XML and Z39.50.
+ updates. Reindex supports MARC21, danMARC eller Dublin Core with
+ UTF8-encoding.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Reindex.net runs on GNU/Debian Linux with Zebra and Simpleserver
+ from Index
+ Data for bibliographic data. The relational database system
+ Sybase 9 XML is used for
+ administrative data.
+ Internally MARCXML is used for bibliographical records. Update
+ utilizes Z39.50 extended services.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="dads-article-database">
+ <title>DADS - the DTV Article Database
+ Service</title>
+ <para>
+ 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/"/> and
+ <ulink url="http://dads.dtv.dk"/>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="infonet-eprints">
+ <title>Infonet Eprints</title>
+ <para>
+ The InfoNet Eprints service from the
+ <ulink url="http://www.dtv.dk/">
+ Technical Knowledge Center of Denmark</ulink>
+ provides access to documents stored in
+ eprint/preprint servers and institutional research archives around
+ the world. The service is based on Open Archives Initiative metadata
+ harvesting of selected scientific archives around the world. These
+ open archives offer free and unrestricted access to their contents.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Infonet Eprints currently holds 1.4 million records from 16 archives.
+ The online search facility is found at
+ <ulink url="http://preprints.cvt.dk"/>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="alvis-project">
+ <title>Alvis</title>
+ <para>
+ The <ulink url="http://www.alvis.info/alvis/">Alvis</ulink> EU
+ project run under the 6th Framework (IST-1-002068-STP)
+ is building a semantic-based peer-to-peer search engine. A
+ consortium of eleven partners from six different European
+ Community countries plus Switzerland and China contribute
+ with expertise in a broad range of specialties including network
+ topologies, routing algorithms, linguistic analysis and
+ bioinformatics.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The Zebra information retrieval indexing machine is used inside
+ the Alvis framework to
+ manage huge collections of natural language processed and
+ enhanced XML data, coming from a topic relevant web crawl.
+ In this application, Zebra swallows and manages 37GB of XML data
+ in about 4 hours, resulting in search times of fractions of
+ seconds.