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 <chapter id="introduction">
- <!-- $Id: introduction.xml,v 1.10 2002-08-29 01:15:25 mike Exp $ -->
+ <!-- $Id: introduction.xml,v 1.13 2002-09-20 09:58:04 mike Exp $ -->
  <title>Introduction</title>
  
  <sect1>
@@ -78,10 +78,10 @@
      <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>
@@ -184,13 +184,15 @@
   
  </sect1>
  
- <sect1 id="apps">
+  <sect1 id="apps">
   <title>Applications</title>
   <para>
    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:
@@ -199,7 +201,7 @@
   <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
@@ -207,12 +209,67 @@
     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>
+
+  <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/"/>
+   </para>
+   <para>
+    For more information, contact Johannes Leveling
+    <email>Johannes.Leveling@FernUni-Hagen.De</email>
+   </para>
+  </sect2>
+
+  <sect2>
+   <title>ULS (Union List of Serials)</title>
+   <para>
+    The London School of Economics (### I think)
+    are involved in a projects called ULS to provide a union catalogue
+    for periodicals in 21 member libraries.  They do this with an
+    unusual architecture which they call 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 21 targets or a selection of them.
+   </para>
+   <para>
+    More information can be found at
+    <ulink url="http://www.m25lib.ac.uk/ULS/"/>
    </para>
   </sect2>
 
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     or subset of the whole Web.
    </para>
    <para>
-    ### examples, details and numbers, please!
+    For example, Liverpool University's web-search facility (see on
+    the home page at
+    <ulink url="http://www.liv.ac.uk/"/>
+    and many sub-pages) works by relevance-searching a Zebra database
+    which is populated by the Harvest-NG web-crawling software.
+   </para>
+   <para>
+    For more information, contact John Gilbertson
+    <email>jgilbert@liverpool.ac.uk</email>
    </para>
   </sect2>
  </sect1>