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-%# $Id: home.mc,v 1.6 2007-03-14 17:25:53 mike Exp $
+%# $Id: home.mc,v 1.7 2007-03-30 11:43:46 mike Exp $
      <div class="essay">
      <p>
       <b>IRSpy</b> maintains a registry of information retrieval
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       database titles, authors and descriptions.
      </p>
      <p>
-      IRSpy supports editing of the metadata, and automatically
-      discovers mechanical information by probing the registered
-      targets using a set of feature-tests.  Tests are implemented by
-%# Link to /doc.html?module=ZOOM/IRSpy/Test.pm is not ready yet
-      individual plugins,
-      so new tests can be added without changing the core code.
-     </p>
-     <p>
-      For efficiency, probing of targets is done in parallel, using a
-      pool of a few hundred concurrent connections which is refilled
-      from a queue whenever a target in the pool completes its tests.
-      Testing the entire current registry of 1908 targets takes about
-      three elapsed hours on commodity hardware (Intel CPU, 2.8 GHz,
-      256 Kb cache, 4 Mbit/s network connection).
-     </p>
-     <p>
-      IRSpy's Web user interface allows users to
-      <a href="/find.html">search</a>
-      and
-      <a href="/find.html?dc.title=^a*&amp;_sort=dc.title&amp;_count=9999&amp;_search=Search">browse</a>
-      the registry, and to view
-      <a href="http://x.irspy.indexdata.com/stats.html">statistics</a>.
-      Authenticated users may also edit target data, run tests and add
-      new targets from the Web UI.  A set of command-line tools is
-      also provided, together with facilities for re-running the tests
-      periodically.
-     </p>
-     <p>
-      IRSpy is implemented in Perl, using the
-      <a href="http://search.cpan.org/~mirk/Net-Z3950-ZOOM/"
-       >ZOOM-Perl</a>
-      module to access Z39.50 and SRU/SRW databases.  The registry
-      database is implemented using
-      <a href="http://indexdata.com/zebra/"
-       >Zebra</a>,
-      also accessed using ZOOM-Perl.  The database
-      <a href="/doc.html?module=ZOOM/IRSpy/WebService.pod"
-       >can be interrogated using SRU/SRW<a/>:
-      it conforms to the
-      <a href="http://srw.cheshire3.org/profiles/ZeeRex/"
-       >ZeeRex application profile</a>,
-      and can supply registry records both in extended
-      <a href="http://explain.z3950.org/dtd/"
-       >ZeeRex format</a>
-      (now ratified as
-      <a href="http://www.niso.org/standards/standard_detail.cfm?std_id=816"
-       >ANSI/NISO Z39.92</a>
-      and in
-      <a href="http://www.loc.gov/standards/sru/record-schemas.html"
-       >Dublin Core</a>
-      summary format.
+      Read more about
+      <a href="/software.html">the IRSpy software</a>.
      </p>
      </div>