<chapter id="introduction">
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+ <!-- $Id: introduction.xml,v 1.26 2003-10-30 11:11:57 adam Exp $ -->
<title>Introduction</title>
<sect1>
<sect2>
<title>ULS (Union List of Serials)</title>
<para>
- The M25-Link systems team
- (<ulink url="http://www.m25lib.ac.uk/M25link/"/>)
- are involved in a project called ULS to provide a union catalogue
- for periodicals in 21 member libraries. They do this with an
- unusual architecture which they call a
+ 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>
<para>
Kang-Jin Lee
<email>lee@arco.de</email>,
- has recently modified the Harvest-NG web crawler to use Zebra as
+ has recently modified the Harvest web indexer to use Zebra as
its native repository engine. His comments on the switch over
from the old engine are revealing:
<blockquote>
Third, it's possible to buy a commercial support contract, with
well defined service levels and response times, from Index Data.
See
- <ulink url="http://indexdata.dk/support2/"/>
+ <ulink url="http://indexdata.dk/support/"/>
for details.
</para>
</sect1>
<para>
Support for the use of Perl both for access to the Zebra API
and for building extension ``plug-ins'' such as input filters.
- The code for this has been contributed to the source tree, and
- is in the process of being integrated and tested.
+ The code for this has been contributed to the source tree by
+ Peter Popovics
+ <email>pop@technomat.hu</email>,
+ and is in the process of being integrated and tested.
</para>
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