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+<!-- $Header: /home/cvsroot/yaz/doc/indexdata.xml,v 1.1 2001-01-04 13:36:24 adam Exp $ -->
+<appendix><title>About Index Data</title>
+
+<para>
+Index Data is a consulting and software-development enterprise that
+specialises in library and information management systems. Our
+interests and expertise span a broad range of related fields, and one
+of our primary, long-term objectives is the development of a powerful
+information management
+system with open network interfaces and hypermedia capabilities.
+</para><para>
+We make this software available free of charge, on a fairly unrestrictive
+license; as a service to the networking community, and to further the
+development of quality software for open network communication.
+</para><para>
+We'll be happy to answer questions about the software, and about ourselves
+in general.
+</para>
+<para>
+<address>
+Index Data Aps
+<street>K&oslash;bmagergade 43</street>
+<postcode>1150 Copenhagen K</postcode>
+<country>Denmark</country>
+Phone <phone>+45 3341 0100</phone>
+Fax <fax>+45 3341 0101</fax>
+Email <email>info@indexdata.dk</email>
+</address>
+
+</para>
+<para>
+
+The Hacker's Jargon File has the following to say about the
+use of the
+prefix &quot;YA&quot; in the name of a software product.
+</para>
+<para>
+<citation>
+Yet Another. adj. 1. Of your own work: A
+humorous allusion often used in titles to acknowledge that the
+topic is not original, though the content is.  As in &quot;Yet Another
+AI Group&quot; or &quot;Yet Another Simulated Annealing Algorithm&quot;.
+2. Of
+others' work: Describes something of which there are already far
+too many.
+</citation>
+
+</para>
+</appendix>