<chapter id="introduction">
- <!-- $Id: introduction.xml,v 1.10 2002-08-29 01:15:25 mike Exp $ -->
+ <!-- $Id: introduction.xml,v 1.12 2002-08-30 01:17:10 mike Exp $ -->
<title>Introduction</title>
<sect1>
<para>
Robust updating - records can be added and deleted ``on the fly''
without rebuilding the index from scratch.
- Registers can be safely updated even while users are accessing
+ Records can be safely updated even while users are accessing
the server.
The update procedure is tolerant to crashes or hard interrupts
- during register updating - registers can be reconstructed following
+ during database updating - data can be reconstructed following
a crash.
</para>
</listitem>
Zebra has been deployed in numerous applications, in both the
academic and commercial worlds, in application domains as diverse
as bibliographic catalogues, geospatial information, structured
- vocabulary browsing, ### (Help, guys!)
+ vocabulary browsing, government information locators, civic
+ information systems, environmental observations, museum information
+ and web indexes.
</para>
<para>
Notable applications include the following:
<sect2>
<title>DADS - the DTV Article Database Service</title>
<para>
- DADS is a huge database of more than ten million records, totally
+ 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
full text is not indexed.)
</para>
<para>
- It allows students and researchers at DTU (###) to find and order
+ 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 at
- http://www.dtv.dk/search/index_e.htm
- though currently only to registered users.
+ 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>
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+Subject: [Zebralist] Looking for Deployment Stories
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+Mike Taylor writes:
+ > People,
+ >
+ > In collaboration with Sebastian, Adam and Heikki, I am reworking some
+ > parts of the Zebra documentation in preparation for the forthcoming
+ > release. One area I am keen to expand on is (briefly) describing
+ > interesting applications of Zebra. If you've deployed it in a way
+ > that you consider interesting, I'd love to hear from you, however
+ > briefly. Think of this as a chance to get some free publicity for
+ > your application in the Zebra documentation.
+ >
+ > Replies off-list to <zebra@miketaylor.org.uk>, please.
+ >
+ > _/|_ _______________________________________________________________
+ > /o ) \/ Mike Taylor <mike@miketaylor.org.uk> www.miketaylor.org.uk
+ > )_v__/\ There are some good things you can never have too much of.
+ >
+ >
+ > _______________________________________________
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+ > Zebralist@indexdata.dk
+ > http://www.indexdata.dk/mailman/listinfo/zebralist
+ >
+Intersting?
+We have developed a natural language interface (NLI-Z39.50) for access
+to library databases at the Fernuniversität Hagen, Germany
+(http://ki212.fernuni-hagen.de/nli/NLI.html).
+To prepare formal information retrieval evaluation,
+we chose the Zebra server as the basis for
+evaluating retrieval effectiveness (measuring recall
+and precision for the GIRT database). The Zebra database
+consists of more than 76000 records in SGML format (bibliographic
+records from social science), which are mapped to MARC for presentation.
+Evaluation will take place as part of the TREC/CLEF campaign 2003
+(see http://clef.iei.pi.cnr.it or http://www4.eurospider.ch/CLEF/).
+
+
+Johannes Leveling Praktische Informatik VII/KI
+ FernUniversität Hagen
+
+Email : Johannes.Leveling@FernUni-Hagen.De
+Tel. : +49 2331 987-4525
+
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+
<sect2>
<title>Various web indexes</title>
<para>
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