Removed unnecessary begin/end trans around zebra_repository_update

[idzebra-moved-to-github.git] / doc / introduction.xml

diff --git a/doc/introduction.xml b/doc/introduction.xml
index 189c4bc..03401df 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/introduction.xml
+++ b/doc/introduction.xml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 <chapter id="introduction">
 <chapter id="introduction">

- <!-- $Id: introduction.xml,v 1.10 2002-08-29 01:15:25 mike Exp $ -->
+ <!-- $Id: introduction.xml,v 1.12 2002-08-30 01:17:10 mike Exp $ -->

  <title>Introduction</title>
  
  <sect1>
  <title>Introduction</title>
  
  <sect1>

@@ -78,10 +78,10 @@
      <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>

@@ -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:

@@ -199,7 +201,7 @@
   <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

@@ -207,15 +209,75 @@
     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>
 

+<!--
+Envelope-to: zebra@miketaylor.org.uk
+From: Johannes Leveling <Johannes.Leveling@FernUni-Hagen.de>
+Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
+Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 19:19:55 +0200
+To: zebra@miketaylor.org.uk
+Subject: [Zebralist] Looking for Deployment Stories
+In-Reply-To: <200208281002.LAA16526@seatbooker.net>
+X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11
+X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by localhost.localdomain id g7TLWR905724
+
+Mike Taylor writes:
+ > People,
+ > 
+ > In collaboration with Sebastian, Adam and Heikki, I am reworking some
+ > parts of the Zebra documentation in preparation for the forthcoming
+ > release.  One area I am keen to expand on is (briefly) describing
+ > interesting applications of Zebra.  If you've deployed it in a way
+ > that you consider interesting, I'd love to hear from you, however
+ > briefly.  Think of this as a chance to get some free publicity for
+ > your application in the Zebra documentation.
+ > 
+ > Replies off-list to <zebra@miketaylor.org.uk>, please.
+ > 
+ >  _/|_        _______________________________________________________________
+ > /o ) \/  Mike Taylor   <mike@miketaylor.org.uk>   www.miketaylor.org.uk
+ > )_v__/\  There are some good things you can never have too much of.
+ > 
+ > 
+ > _______________________________________________
+ > Zebralist mailing list
+ > Zebralist@indexdata.dk
+ > http://www.indexdata.dk/mailman/listinfo/zebralist
+ > 
+Intersting?
+We have developed a natural language interface (NLI-Z39.50) for access
+to library databases at the Fernuniversität Hagen, Germany
+(http://ki212.fernuni-hagen.de/nli/NLI.html).
+To prepare formal information retrieval evaluation,
+we chose the Zebra server as the basis for
+evaluating retrieval effectiveness (measuring recall 
+and precision for the GIRT database). The Zebra database 
+consists of more than 76000 records in SGML format (bibliographic 
+records from social science), which are mapped to MARC for presentation. 
+Evaluation will take place as part of the TREC/CLEF campaign 2003 
+(see http://clef.iei.pi.cnr.it or http://www4.eurospider.ch/CLEF/).
+
+
+Johannes Leveling        Praktische Informatik VII/KI           
+                         FernUniversität Hagen
+
+Email : Johannes.Leveling@FernUni-Hagen.De  
+Tel.  : +49 2331 987-4525
+
+-->
+

   <sect2>
    <title>Various web indexes</title>
    <para>
   <sect2>
    <title>Various web indexes</title>
    <para>