+ <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.
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section id="uls">
+ <title>ULS (Union List of Serials)</title>
+ <para>
+ The M25 Systems Team
+ has created a union catalogue for the periodicals of the
+ twenty-one constituent libraries of the University of London and
+ the University of Westminster
+ (<ulink url="http://www.m25lib.ac.uk/ULS/"/>).
+ They have achieved this using an
+ unusual architecture, which they describe as a
+ ``non-distributed virtual union catalogue''.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ The member libraries send in data files representing their
+ periodicals, including both brief bibliographic data and summary
+ holdings. Then 21 individual Z39.50 targets are created, each
+ using Zebra, and all mounted on the single hardware server.
+ The live service provides a web gateway allowing Z39.50 searching
+ of all of the targets or a selection of them. Zebra's small
+ footprint allows a relatively modest system to comfortably host
+ the 21 servers.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ More information can be found at
+ <ulink url="http://www.m25lib.ac.uk/ULS/"/>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="nli">
+ <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 <ulink url="http://www4.eurospider.ch/CLEF/"/> -->
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ For more information, contact Johannes Leveling
+ <email>Johannes.Leveling@FernUni-Hagen.De</email>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
+ <section id="various-web-indexes">