X-Git-Url: http://git.indexdata.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;ds=sidebyside;f=doc%2Fintroduction.xml;h=69938cbaf24603fa17df16f7f3f3db4e5800ad7e;hb=7eadce386ee55efd7f30d29e2752c3b2d3a1474f;hp=e3d884f56f9b122d56e4851c560e058c591a0f02;hpb=1d2919b93a4835aa36ad39f32c1bdeb34fdcb142;p=idzebra-moved-to-github.git diff --git a/doc/introduction.xml b/doc/introduction.xml index e3d884f..69938cb 100644 --- a/doc/introduction.xml +++ b/doc/introduction.xml @@ -1,5 +1,4 @@ - Introduction
@@ -44,7 +43,7 @@ &zebra; is a high-performance, general-purpose structured text indexing and retrieval engine. It reads records in a - variety of input formats (eg. email, &acro.xml;, &acro.marc;) and provides access + variety of input formats (e.g. email, &acro.xml;, &acro.marc;) and provides access to them through a powerful combination of boolean search expressions and relevance-ranked free-text queries. @@ -208,7 +207,7 @@ Predefined field types user defined Data fields can be indexed as phrase, as into word - tokenized text, as numeric values, url's, dates, and raw binary + tokenized text, as numeric values, URLs, dates, and raw binary data. and @@ -218,7 +217,7 @@ Regular expression matching available Full regular expression matching and "approximate - matching" (eg. spelling mistake corrections) are handled. + matching" (e.g. spelling mistake corrections) are handled. @@ -753,6 +752,39 @@
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+ Kete Open Source Digital Library and Archiving software + + Kete is a digital object + management repository, initially developed in + New Zealand. Initial development has + been a partnership between the Horowhenua Library Trust and + Katipo Communications Ltd. funded as part of the Community + Partnership Fund in 2006. + Kete is purpose built + software to enable communities to build their own digital + libraries, archives and repositories. + + + It is based on Ruby-on-Rails and MySQL, and integrates the &zebra; server + and the &yaz; toolkit for indexing and retrieval of it's content. + Zebra is run as separate computer process from the Kete + application. + See + how Kete manages + Zebra. + + + Why does Kete wants to use Zebra?? Speed, Scalability and easy + integration with Koha. Read their + detailed + reasoning here. + +
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Emilda open source ILS @@ -928,7 +960,7 @@ &zebra; has been used by a variety of institutions to construct indexes of large web sites, typically in the region of tens of millions of pages. In this role, it functions somewhat similarly - to the engine of google or altavista, but for a selected intranet + to the engine of Google or AltaVista, but for a selected intranet or a subset of the whole Web. @@ -1002,13 +1034,6 @@ releases, bug fixes, etc.) and general discussion. You are welcome to seek support there. Join by filling the form on the list home page. - - Third, it's possible to buy a commercial support contract, with - well defined service levels and response times, from Index Data. - See - - for details. -