From b0c9a12807b10f2831951a270691b08aa1376262 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mike Taylor Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 14:05:11 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] flesh out dads description --- doc/introduction.xml | 24 +++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/introduction.xml b/doc/introduction.xml index 189c4bc..8976fa6 100644 --- a/doc/introduction.xml +++ b/doc/introduction.xml @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ - + Introduction @@ -78,10 +78,10 @@ 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 - during register updating - registers can be reconstructed following + during database updating - data can be reconstructed following a crash. @@ -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 - vocabulary browsing, ### (Help, guys!) + vocabulary browsing, government information locators, civic + information systems, environmental observations, museum information + and web indexes. Notable applications include the following: @@ -199,7 +201,7 @@ DADS - the DTV Article Database Service - 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 @@ -207,12 +209,16 @@ full text is not indexed.) - 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 - 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. + + + More information can be found at + -- 1.7.10.4