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@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 <chapter id="introduction">
- <!-- $Id: introduction.xml,v 1.51 2007-12-19 13:35:39 adam Exp $ -->
  <title>Introduction</title>
  
  <section id="overview">
@@ -44,7 +43,7 @@
    <ulink url="http://indexdata.dk/zebra/">&zebra;</ulink>
    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.
   </para>
@@ -208,7 +207,7 @@
        <entry>Predefined field types</entry>
        <entry>user defined</entry>
        <entry>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.</entry> 
        <entry><xref linkend="character-map-files"/> and
               <xref linkend="querymodel-pqf-apt-mapping-structuretype"/>
@@ -218,7 +217,7 @@
        <entry>Regular expression matching</entry>
        <entry>available</entry>
        <entry>Full regular expression matching and "approximate
-        matching" (eg. spelling mistake corrections) are handled.</entry>
+        matching" (e.g. spelling mistake corrections) are handled.</entry>
        <entry><xref linkend="querymodel-regular"/></entry>
       </row>
       <row>
@@ -753,6 +752,39 @@
      </para>
    </section>
 
+
+  <section id="kete-dom">
+   <title>Kete Open Source Digital Library and Archiving software</title>
+   <para>
+     <ulink url="http://kete.net.nz/">Kete</ulink> 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.  
+    </para>
+    <para>
+     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 <ulink
+     url="http://kete.net.nz/documentation/topics/show/139-managing-zebra">manages
+     Zebra.</ulink>
+     </para>
+     <para>
+     Why does Kete wants to use Zebra?? Speed, Scalability and easy
+ integration with Koha. Read their
+ <ulink
+     url="http://kete.net.nz/blog/topics/show/44-who-what-why-when-answering-some-of-the-niggly-development-questions">detailed
+ reasoning here.</ulink>
+    </para>
+   </section>
+
   <section id="emilda-ils">
    <title>Emilda open source ILS</title>
    <para>
@@ -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.
    </para>
    <para>
@@ -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.
    </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>  
 </chapter>
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