<chapter id="introduction">
- <!-- $Id: introduction.xml,v 1.10 2002-08-29 01:15:25 mike Exp $ -->
+ <!-- $Id: introduction.xml,v 1.11 2002-08-29 14:05:11 mike Exp $ -->
<title>Introduction</title>
<sect1>
<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
- during register updating - registers can be reconstructed following
+ during database updating - data can be reconstructed following
a crash.
</para>
</listitem>
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:
<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
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
- 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>