<chapter id="introduction">
- <!-- $Id: introduction.xml,v 1.47 2007-02-05 14:02:27 marc Exp $ -->
+ <!-- $Id: introduction.xml,v 1.48 2007-02-05 14:05:26 marc Exp $ -->
<title>Introduction</title>
<section id="overview">
code is open to anybody to read and change under the GPL license.
</para>
<para>
- &zebra; is a networked component which acts as a reliable &z3950; server
+ &zebra; is a networked component which acts as a
+ reliable &z3950; server
for both record/document search, presentation, insert, update and
delete operations. In addition, it understands the &sru; family of
- webservices, which exist in &rest; &get;/&post; and truly &soap; flavors.
+ webservices, which exist in &rest; &get;/&post; and truly
+ &soap; flavors.
</para>
<para>
&zebra; is available as MS Windows 2003 Server (32 bit) self-extracting
<entry>term suggestions</entry>
<entry><literal>Scan</literal> on a given named index returns all the
indexed terms in lexicographical order near the given start
- term. This can be used to create drop-down menues and search
+ term. This can be used to create drop-down menus and search
suggestions.</entry>
<entry><xref linkend="querymodel-operation-type-scan"/> and
<xref linkend="querymodel-atomic-queries"/>
<row>
<entry>Data size</entry>
<entry>100 GB of record data</entry>
- <entry>&zebra; based applications have sucessfully indexed up
+ <entry>&zebra; based applications have successfully indexed up
to 100 GB of record data</entry>
<entry></entry>
</row>
<entry>Linux</entry>
<entry></entry>
<entry>GNU Linux (32 and 64bit), journaling Reiser or (better)
- JFS filesystem
- on disks. NFS filesystems are not supported.
+ JFS file system
+ on disks. NFS file systems are not supported.
GNU/Debian Linux packages are available</entry>
<entry><xref linkend="installation-debian"/></entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Unix</entry>
- <entry>tarball</entry>
+ <entry>tar-ball</entry>
<entry>&zebra; is written in portable C, so it runs on most
Unix-like systems.
- Usual tarball install possible on many major Unix systems</entry>
+ Usual tar-ball install possible on many major Unix systems</entry>
<entry><xref linkend="installation-unix"/></entry>
</row>
<row>
<para>
&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
+ as bibliographic catalogues, Geo-spatial information, structured
vocabulary browsing, government information locators, civic
information systems, environmental observations, museum information
and web indexes.