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flesh out dads description
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Mike Taylor
<mike@indexdata.com>
Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:05:11 +0000
(14:05 +0000)
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Mike Taylor
<mike@indexdata.com>
Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:05:11 +0000
(14:05 +0000)
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doc/introduction.xml
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doc/introduction.xml
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<chapter id="introduction">
<chapter id="introduction">
- <!-- $Id: introduction.xml,v 1.10 2002-08-29 01:15:25 mike Exp $ -->
+ <!-- $Id: introduction.xml,v 1.11 2002-08-29 14:05:11 mike Exp $ -->
<title>Introduction</title>
<sect1>
<title>Introduction</title>
<sect1>
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-78,10
+78,10
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<para>
Robust updating - records can be added and deleted ``on the fly''
without rebuilding the index from scratch.
<para>
Robust updating - records can be added and deleted ``on the fly''
without rebuilding the index from scratch.
- Registers can be safely updated even while users are accessing
+ Records can be safely updated even while users are accessing
the server.
The update procedure is tolerant to crashes or hard interrupts
the server.
The update procedure is tolerant to crashes or hard interrupts
- during register updating - registers can be reconstructed following
+ during database updating - data can be reconstructed following
a crash.
</para>
</listitem>
a crash.
</para>
</listitem>
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-190,7
+190,9
@@
Zebra has been deployed in numerous applications, in both the
academic and commercial worlds, in application domains as diverse
as bibliographic catalogues, geospatial information, structured
Zebra has been deployed in numerous applications, in both the
academic and commercial worlds, in application domains as diverse
as bibliographic catalogues, geospatial information, structured
- vocabulary browsing, ### (Help, guys!)
+ vocabulary browsing, government information locators, civic
+ information systems, environmental observations, museum information
+ and web indexes.
</para>
<para>
Notable applications include the following:
</para>
<para>
Notable applications include the following:
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-199,7
+201,7
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<sect2>
<title>DADS - the DTV Article Database Service</title>
<para>
<sect2>
<title>DADS - the DTV Article Database Service</title>
<para>
- DADS is a huge database of more than ten million records, totally
+ 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
metadata records link to the full text of the articles they
over ten gigabytes of data. The records are metadata about academic
journal articles, primarily scientific; about 10% of these
metadata records link to the full text of the articles they
@@
-207,12
+209,16
@@
full text is not indexed.)
</para>
<para>
full text is not indexed.)
</para>
<para>
- It allows students and researchers at DTU (###) to find and order
+ It allows students and researchers at DTU (Danmarks Tekniske
+ Universitet, the Technical College of Denmark) to find and order
articles from multiple databases in a single query. The database
contains literature on all engineering subjects. It's available
articles from multiple databases in a single query. The database
contains literature on all engineering subjects. It's available
- on-line through a web gateway at
- http://www.dtv.dk/search/index_e.htm
- though currently only to registered users.
+ on-line through a web gateway, though currently only to registered
+ users.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ More information can be found at
+ <ulink url="http://www.dtv.dk/help/dads/index_e.htm"/>
</para>
</sect2>
</para>
</sect2>