X-Git-Url: http://git.indexdata.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fintroduction.xml;h=528f546719504e7f6e7c958c125b07cf51447d60;hb=c22b27ba78b584e1f3e6ba863b854bf7f741d0a3;hp=b88f4c95f7b24b97d13e947c838cba0495b58be6;hpb=763bf5f4fc8d22feda4784ec7a9db01902902016;p=idzebra-moved-to-github.git diff --git a/doc/introduction.xml b/doc/introduction.xml index b88f4c9..528f546 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. @@ -274,12 +273,10 @@ Facetted browsing - partial - &zebra; supports scan inside a hit - set from a previous search, thus reducing the listed - terms to the - subset of terms found in the documents/records of the hit - set. + available + Zebra 2.1 and allows retrieval of facets for + a result set. + @@ -755,6 +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 @@ -930,7 +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.