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<title>Introduction</title>
<sect1>
</sect1>
- <sect1 id="apps">
+ <sect1 id="apps">
<title>Applications</title>
<para>
Zebra has been deployed in numerous applications, in both the
</para>
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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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-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
+ <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>
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+ <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>
<sect2>
<title>Various web indexes</title>
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>
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