<chapter id="introduction">
- <!-- $Id: introduction.xml,v 1.34 2006-06-30 13:58:07 marc Exp $ -->
+ <!-- $Id: introduction.xml,v 1.40 2006-09-22 12:34:45 adam Exp $ -->
<title>Introduction</title>
- <sect1>
+ <section id="overview">
<title>Overview</title>
<para>
programs and toolkits, both commercial and free, which understand
this protocol. Application libraries are available to allow
bespoke clients to be written in Perl, C, C++, Java, Tcl, Visual
- Basic, Python, PHP and more - see
- <ulink url="http://zoom.z3950.org/">the ZOOM web site</ulink>
+ Basic, Python, PHP and more - see the
+ <ulink url="&url.zoom;">ZOOM web site</ulink>
for more information on some of these client toolkits.
</para>
and how to configure the server to give you the
functionality that you need.
</para>
- </sect1>
+ </section>
- <sect1 id="features">
+ <section id="features">
<title>Features</title>
<para>
<listitem>
<para>
Zebra is written in portable C, so it runs on most Unix-like systems
- as well as Windows NT. A binary distribution for Windows NT is
- available at
- <ulink url="http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/zebra/win32/"/>,
+ as well as Windows (NT/2000/2003). A binary distribution for Windows
+ is available at
+ <ulink url="&url.idzebra.download.win32;"/>,
and pre-built packages are available for
<!--- some Linux
distributions:
and Debian packages at
-->
<literal>GNU/Debian Linux</literal> at
- <ulink url="http://ftp.indexdata.dk/pub/zebra/debian/"/>.
+ <ulink url="&url.idzebra.download.debian;"/>.
</para>
</listitem>
<literal>alvis</literal> filter module.
</para>
</listitem>
- <listitem>
- <para>
- Additional PQF query syntax for
- <literal>searchRetrieve</literal>
- and <literal>scan</literal> operations is supported.
+ <listitem>
+ <para>
+ Extended RPN queries for search/retrieve and scan are supported,
+ for controlling approximate hit counts, etc.
</para>
- </listitem>
+ </listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</para>
- </sect1>
+ </section>
- <sect1 id="introduction-apps">
+ <section id="introduction-apps">
<title>References and Zebra based Applications</title>
<para>
Zebra has been deployed in numerous applications, in both the
</para>
- <sect2>
+ <section id="koha-ils">
<title>Koha free open-source ILS</title>
<para>
<ulink url="http://www.koha.org/">Koha</ulink> is a full-featured
"We're taking the best from both worlds in our redesigned Koha
3.0.
</para>
- </sect2>
+ <para>
+ See also LibLime's newsletter article
+ <ulink url="http://www.liblime.com/newsletter/2006/01/features/koha-earns-its-stripes/">
+ Koha Earns its Stripes</ulink>.
+ </para>
+ </section>
- <sect2>
+ <section id="emilda-ils">
<title>Emilda open source ILS</title>
<para>
<ulink url="http://www.emilda.org/">Emilda</ulink>
As a surplus, 100% MARC compatibility has been achieved using the
Zebra Server from Index Data as backend server.
</para>
- </sect2>
+ </section>
- <sect2>
+ <section id="reindex-ils">
<title>ReIndex.Net web based ILS</title>
<para>
<ulink url="http://www.reindex.net/index.php?lang=en">Reindex.net</ulink>
<para>
Reindex.net runs on GNU/Debian Linux with Zebra and Simpleserver
from Index
- Data for bibliographic data. The reational database system
+ Data for bibliographic data. The relational database system
Sybase 9 XML is used for
administrative data.
Internally MARCXML is used for bibliographical records. Update
utilizes Z39.50 extended services.
</para>
- </sect2>
-
+ </section>
- <sect2>
- <title>DADS - the DTV Article Database Service</title>
- <para>
+ <section id="dads-article-database">
+ <title>DADS - the DTV Article Database
+ Service</title>
+ <para>
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
<ulink url="http://www.dtv.dk/"/> and
<ulink url="http://dads.dtv.dk"/>
</para>
- </sect2>
+ </section>
- <sect2>
+ <section id="infonet-eprints">
<title>Infonet Eprints</title>
<para>
The InfoNet Eprints service from the
The online search facility is found at
<ulink url="http://preprints.cvt.dk"/>.
</para>
- </sect2>
+ </section>
- <sect2>
+ <section id="alvis-project">
<title>Alvis</title>
<para>
The <ulink url="http://www.alvis.info/alvis/">Alvis</ulink> EU
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
- expertise in a broad range of specialties including network
+ with expertise in a broad range of specialties including network
topologies, routing algorithms, linguistic analysis and
bioinformatics.
</para>
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 timese of fraction of
+ in about 4 hours, resulting in search times of fractions of
seconds.
</para>
- </sect2>
+ </section>
- <sect2>
+ <section id="uls">
<title>ULS (Union List of Serials)</title>
<para>
The M25 Systems Team
More information can be found at
<ulink url="http://www.m25lib.ac.uk/ULS/"/>
</para>
- </sect2>
+ </section>
- <sect2>
+ <section id="nli">
<title>NLI-Z39.50 - a Natural Language Interface for Libraries</title>
<para>
Fernuniversität Hagen in Germany have developed a natural
For more information, contact Johannes Leveling
<email>Johannes.Leveling@FernUni-Hagen.De</email>
</para>
- </sect2>
+ </section>
- <sect2>
+ <section id="various-web-indexes">
<title>Various web indexes</title>
<para>
Zebra has been used by a variety of institutions to construct
</para>
</blockquote>
</para>
- </sect2>
- </sect1>
-
-
- <sect1 id="support">
- <title>Support</title>
- <para>
- You can get support for Zebra from at least three sources.
- </para>
- <para>
- First, there's the Zebra web site at
- <ulink url="http://indexdata.dk/zebra/"/>,
- which always has the most recent version available for download.
- If you have a problem with Zebra, the first thing to do is see
- whether it's fixed in the current release.
- </para>
- <para>
- Second, there's the Zebra mailing list. Its home page at
- <ulink url="http://lists.indexdata.dk/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/zebralist"/>
- includes a complete archive of all messages that have ever been
- posted on the list. The Zebra mailing list is used both for
- announcements from the authors (new
- releases, bug fixes, etc.) and general discussion. You are welcome
- to seek support there. Join by filling the form on the list home page.
- </para>
- <para>
- 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/support/"/>
- for details.
- </para>
- </sect1>
+ </section>
+ </section>
+
+
+ <section id="introduction-support">
+ <title>Support</title>
+ <para>
+ You can get support for Zebra from at least three sources.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ First, there's the Zebra web site at
+ <ulink url="&url.idzebra;"/>,
+ which always has the most recent version available for download.
+ If you have a problem with Zebra, the first thing to do is see
+ whether it's fixed in the current release.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Second, there's the Zebra mailing list. Its home page at
+ <ulink url="&url.idzebra.mailinglist;"/>
+ includes a complete archive of all messages that have ever been
+ posted on the list. The Zebra mailing list is used both for
+ announcements from the authors (new
+ releases, bug fixes, etc.) and general discussion. You are welcome
+ to seek support there. Join by filling the form on the list home page.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Third, it's possible to buy a commercial support contract, with
+ well defined service levels and response times, from Index Data.
+ See
+ <ulink url="&url.indexdata.support;"/>
+ for details.
+ </para>
+ </section>
- <sect1 id="future">
+ <section id="future">
<title>Future Directions</title>
<para>
XSLT transformations during indexing and record retrieval. Work
on this filter has been sponsored by the ALVIS EU project
<ulink url="http://www.alvis.info/alvis/"/>. We expect this filter to
- mature soon, as it is planned to be included in the version 1.4
+ mature soon, as it is planned to be included in the version 2.0
release of Zebra.
</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>
- Access to the search engine through SOAP/RPC API to allow the
- construction of applications without requiring Z39.50 tools.
- <!--
- This will shortly be available by means of Index Data's
- <ulink url="http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/srw/">SRW</ulink>-to-Z39.50 gateway, currently in beta test.
- -->
- Experimental support of the
- Search/Retrieve Via URL ( <ulink url="&url.sru;">SRU</ulink>)
- <ulink url="&url.sru;"/>
- REST webservice, and the
- Search/Retrieve Web Service ( <ulink url="http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/srw/">SRW</ulink>)
- <ulink url="http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/srw/"/>
- SOAP Web Service have recently been added to the YAZ/Zebra
- combo - including server side Common Query Language (<ulink url="&url.cql;">CQL</ulink>)
- <ulink url="&url.cql;"/> parsing
- and configuration. It remains to find a sponsor for further testing,
- documentation and packaging of this exiting component.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
Finalisation and documentation of Zebra's C programming
API, allowing updates, database management and other functions
not readily expressed in Z39.50. We will also consider
<listitem>
<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 by
- Peter Popovics
- <email>pop@technomat.hu</email>,
- and is in the process of being integrated and tested.
- </para>
- </listitem>
-
- <listitem>
- <para>
Improved free-text searching. We're first and foremost octet jockeys and
we're actively looking for organisations or people who'd like
to contribute experience in relevance ranking and text
or check the contact info at the end of this manual.
</para>
- </sect1>
+ </section>
</chapter>
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