<chapter id="introduction">
- <!-- $Id: introduction.xml,v 1.51 2007-12-19 13:35:39 adam Exp $ -->
<title>Introduction</title>
<section id="overview">
<ulink url="http://indexdata.dk/zebra/">&zebra;</ulink>
is a high-performance, general-purpose structured text
indexing and retrieval engine. It reads records in a
- variety of input formats (eg. email, &acro.xml;, &acro.marc;) and provides access
+ variety of input formats (e.g. email, &acro.xml;, &acro.marc;) and provides access
to them through a powerful combination of boolean search
expressions and relevance-ranked free-text queries.
</para>
<entry>Predefined field types</entry>
<entry>user defined</entry>
<entry>Data fields can be indexed as phrase, as into word
- tokenized text, as numeric values, url's, dates, and raw binary
+ tokenized text, as numeric values, URLs, dates, and raw binary
data.</entry>
<entry><xref linkend="character-map-files"/> and
<xref linkend="querymodel-pqf-apt-mapping-structuretype"/>
<entry>Regular expression matching</entry>
<entry>available</entry>
<entry>Full regular expression matching and "approximate
- matching" (eg. spelling mistake corrections) are handled.</entry>
+ matching" (e.g. spelling mistake corrections) are handled.</entry>
<entry><xref linkend="querymodel-regular"/></entry>
</row>
<row>
</para>
</section>
+
+ <section id="kete-dom">
+ <title>Kete Open Source Digital Library and Archiving software</title>
+ <para>
+ <ulink url="http://kete.net.nz/">Kete</ulink> is a digital object
+ management repository, initially developed in
+ New Zealand. Initial development has
+ been a partnership between the Horowhenua Library Trust and
+ Katipo Communications Ltd. funded as part of the Community
+ Partnership Fund in 2006.
+ Kete is purpose built
+ software to enable communities to build their own digital
+ libraries, archives and repositories.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ It is based on Ruby-on-Rails and MySQL, and integrates the &zebra; server
+ and the &yaz; toolkit for indexing and retrieval of it's content.
+ Zebra is run as separate computer process from the Kete
+ application.
+ See
+ how Kete <ulink
+ url="http://kete.net.nz/documentation/topics/show/139-managing-zebra">manages
+ Zebra.</ulink>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Why does Kete wants to use Zebra?? Speed, Scalability and easy
+ integration with Koha. Read their
+ <ulink
+ url="http://kete.net.nz/blog/topics/show/44-who-what-why-when-answering-some-of-the-niggly-development-questions">detailed
+ reasoning here.</ulink>
+ </para>
+ </section>
+
<section id="emilda-ils">
<title>Emilda open source ILS</title>
<para>
&zebra; has been used by a variety of institutions to construct
indexes of large web sites, typically in the region of tens of
millions of pages. In this role, it functions somewhat similarly
- to the engine of google or altavista, but for a selected intranet
+ to the engine of Google or AltaVista, but for a selected intranet
or a subset of the whole Web.
</para>
<para>