From 26dfd04d1977167a820f5b4f7e48f2e57a93af05 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marc Cromme Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 13:58:07 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] aded references to Koha, Emilda, Reindex and Alvis --- doc/introduction.xml | 234 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 193 insertions(+), 41 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/introduction.xml b/doc/introduction.xml index 6c43d25..7b73c9d 100644 --- a/doc/introduction.xml +++ b/doc/introduction.xml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ - + Introduction @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ - Z39.50 protocol support: + Z39.50 protocol support: @@ -137,15 +137,6 @@ Segmentation (support for very large records), Delete, Scan (index browsing), Sort, Close and support for the ``update'' Extended Service to add or replace an existing XML record. - @@ -194,11 +185,53 @@ + + + + SRU Web Service support: + + + + + + The protocol operations explain, + searchRetrieve and scan + are supported. + + + + + CQL to internal query model RPN + conversion is supported. + + + + + Multiple XML record formats + for data retrieval are supported, modelled over the GRS-1, SUTRS, + MARC record formats. Records can be mapped between record + schemas on the fly. Arbitrarily complex XSLT transformations + can be applied during record retrieval if one uses the + alvis filter module. + + + + + Additional PQF query syntax for + searchRetrieve + and scan operations is supported. + + + + + + + - - Applications + + References and Zebra based Applications Zebra has been deployed in numerous applications, in both the academic and commercial worlds, in application domains as diverse @@ -211,6 +244,102 @@ Notable applications include the following: + + + Koha free open-source ILS + + Koha is a full-featured + open-source ILS, initially developed in + New Zealand by Katipo Communications Ltd, and first deployed in + January of 2000 for Horowhenua Library Trust. It is currently + maintained by a team of software providers and library technology + staff from around the globe. + + + LibLime, + a company that is marketing and supporting Koha, adds in + the new release of Koha 3.0 the Zebra + database server to drive its bibliographic database. + + + In early 2005, the Koha project development team began looking at + ways to improve MARC support and overcome scalability limitations + in the Koha 2.x series. After extensive evaluations of the best + of the Open Source textual database engines - including MySQL + full-text searching, PostgreSQL, Lucene and Plucene - the team + selected Zebra. + + + "Zebra completely eliminates scalability limitations, because it + can support tens of millions of records." explained Joshua + Ferraro, LibLime's Technology President and Koha's Project + Release Manager. "Our performance tests showed search results in + under a second for databases with over 5 million records on a + modest i386 900Mhz test server." + + + "Zebra also includes support for true boolean search expressions + and relevance-ranked free-text queries, both of which the Koha + 2.x series lack. Zebra also supports incremental and safe + database updates, which allow on-the-fly record + management. Finally, since Zebra has at its heart the Z39.50 + protocol, it greatly improves Koha's support for that critical + library standard." + + + Although the bibliographic database will be moved to Zebra, Koha + 3.0 will continue to use a relational SQL-based database design + for the 'factual' database. "Relational database managers have + their strengths, in spite of their inability to handle large + numbers of bibliographic records efficiently," summed up Ferraro, + "We're taking the best from both worlds in our redesigned Koha + 3.0. + + + + + Emilda open source ILS + + Emilda + is a complete Integrated Library System, released under the + GNU General Public License. It has a + full featured Web-OPAC, allowing comprehensive system management + from virtually any computer with an Internet connection, has + template based layout allowing anyone to alter the visual + appearance of Emilda, and is + XML based language for fast and easy portability to virtually any + language. + Currently, Emilda is used at three schools in Espoo, Finland. + + + As a surplus, 100% MARC compatibility has been achieved using the + Zebra Server from Index Data as backend server. + + + + + ReIndex.Net web based ILS + + Reindex.net + is a netbased library service offering all + traditional functions on a very high level plus many new + services. Reindex.net is a comprehensive and powerful WEB system + based on standards such as XML and Z39.50. + updates. Reindex supports MARC21, danMARC eller Dublin Core with + UTF8-encoding. + + + Reindex.net runs on GNU/Debian Linux with Zebra and Simpleserver + from Index + Data for bibliographic data. The reational database system + Sybase 9 XML is used for + administrative data. + Internally MARCXML is used for bibliographical records. Update + utilizes Z39.50 extended services. + + + + DADS - the DTV Article Database Service @@ -256,34 +385,28 @@ - NLI-Z39.50 - a Natural Language Interface for Libraries - - Fernuniversität Hagen in Germany have developed a natural - language interface for access to library databases. - - In order to evaluate this interface for recall and precision, they - chose Zebra as the basis for retrieval effectiveness. The Zebra - server contains a copy of the GIRT database, consisting of more - than 76000 records in SGML format (bibliographic records from - social science), which are mapped to MARC for presentation. - - - (GIRT is the German Indexing and Retrieval Testdatabase. It is a - standard German-language test database for intelligent indexing - and retrieval systems. See - ) - + Alvis - Evaluation will take place as part of the TREC/CLEF campaign 2003 - . - - - - For more information, contact Johannes Leveling - Johannes.Leveling@FernUni-Hagen.De - - + The Alvis EU + project run under the 6th Framework (IST-1-002068-STP) + is building a semantic-based peer-to-peer search engine. A + consortium of eleven partners from six different European + Community countries plus Switzerland and China contribute + expertise in a broad range of specialties including network + topologies, routing algorithms, linguistic analysis and + bioinformatics. + + + The Zebra information retrieval indexing machine is used inside + the Alvis framework to + manage huge collections of natural language processed and + enhanced XML data, coming from a topic relevant web crawl. + In this application, Zebra swallows and manages 37GB of XML data + in about 4 hours, resulting in search timese of fraction of + seconds. + + + ULS (Union List of Serials) @@ -314,6 +437,36 @@ + NLI-Z39.50 - a Natural Language Interface for Libraries + + Fernuniversität Hagen in Germany have developed a natural + language interface for access to library databases. + + In order to evaluate this interface for recall and precision, they + chose Zebra as the basis for retrieval effectiveness. The Zebra + server contains a copy of the GIRT database, consisting of more + than 76000 records in SGML format (bibliographic records from + social science), which are mapped to MARC for presentation. + + + (GIRT is the German Indexing and Retrieval Testdatabase. It is a + standard German-language test database for intelligent indexing + and retrieval systems. See + ) + + + Evaluation will take place as part of the TREC/CLEF campaign 2003 + . + + + + For more information, contact Johannes Leveling + Johannes.Leveling@FernUni-Hagen.De + + + + Various web indexes Zebra has been used by a variety of institutions to construct @@ -336,7 +489,6 @@ Kang-Jin Lee - lee@arco.de, has recently modified the Harvest web indexer to use Zebra as its native repository engine. His comments on the switch over from the old engine are revealing: -- 1.7.10.4