From e7b20ebdb1ccd6c73bd9b5e13b9393383e62168d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian Hammer Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2007 05:48:41 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Added intro to book.xml --- doc/book.xml | 47 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- doc/pazpar2.xml | 5 ++--- 2 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/book.xml b/doc/book.xml index 3ac4ac7..7d28253 100644 --- a/doc/book.xml +++ b/doc/book.xml @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ %common; ]> - + Pazpar2 - User's Guide and Reference @@ -22,8 +22,9 @@ - Pazpar2 - High-performance, user-interface - user-interface independtent metasearching middleware. + Pazpar2 - High-performance, user-interface independent, metasearching + middleware featuring record merging, relevance ranking, and faceted search + results. This document is a guide and reference to Pazpar version &version;. @@ -43,10 +44,46 @@ Introduction - - Pazpar2 is.. To be written. + Pazpar2 is a stand-alone package which implements + the best we know to do in terms of the core metasearching + functionality; that is, searching a number of databases in parallel, + merging, and analyzing the results. Additional functionality such as + user management, attractive displays are expected to be implemented by + applications that use pazpar2. Pazpar2 is user interface independent. + Its functionality is exposed through a simple REST-style webservice API, + designed to be simple to use from an Ajax-anbled browser, from a + higher-level server-side language like PHP or Java, or even from a Flash + application. + + Once you launch a search in pazpar2, the operation continues behind the + scenes. Pazpar2 connects to servers, carries out searches, and + retrieves, deduplicates, and stores results internally. Your application + code may periodically inquire about the status of an ongoing operation, + and ask to see records or other result set facets. + + + Pazpar2 is designed to be highly configurable. Incoming records are + normalized to XML/UTF-8, and then further normalized using XSLT to a + simple internal representation that is suitable for analysis. By + providing XSLT stylesheets for different kinds of result records, you + can tune pazpar2 to work against different kinds of information + retrieval servers. Finally, metadata is extracted, in a configurable + way, from this internal record, to support display, merging, ranking, + result set facets, and sorting. Pazpar2 is not bound to a specific model + of metadata, such as DublinCore or MARC -- by providing the right + configuration, it can work with a number of different kinds of data in + support of many different applications. + + + Pazpar2 is designed to be efficient and scalable. You can set it up to + search several hundred targets in parallel, or you can use it to support + hundreds of concurrent users. It is implemented with the same attention + to performance and economy that we use in our indexing engines, so that + you can focus on building your application. You can devote all of your + attention to usability and let pazpar2 do what it does best -- search. + diff --git a/doc/pazpar2.xml b/doc/pazpar2.xml index 0cbf891..4ed42d2 100644 --- a/doc/pazpar2.xml +++ b/doc/pazpar2.xml @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ %common; ]> - + Pazpar2 @@ -21,8 +21,7 @@ pazpar2 - High-performance, user-interface independtent metasearching - middleware + Metasearch daemon. -- 1.7.10.4