CNIDR is pleased to announce the availability of an integrated information
system that provides several of the tools you need to make your data
searchable over the internet via a variety of standard access protocols
and without being limited to a particular database system.
CNIDR Isite:
- Supports multiple internet access points to your data via popular
internationally recognized open communications standards:
- Z39.50 (accessible using clients such as Willow, available from Univ.
of Washington)
- HTTP (via our gateway software, which provides forms-based access to
users with WWW clients such as NCSA Mosaic)
- E-mail
- Includes a prototype of the new CNIDR Search API, which will allow easy
customization to support generalized access to database software you are
already familiar with. We are currently working to interface this API
with several popular commercial and freely-available database systems.
- Includes a new release of CNIDR ZDist, version 1.02, our Z39.50-v2
protocol client/server/library.
- Completely rewritten for improved efficiency and expandability.
- Support added for forking daemon operation, including load balancing
capability.
- Tested for interoperability with other widely used Z39.50 systems.
- Integrated with CNIDR Search API.
- Includes CNIDR Isearch, our own data search/retrieval system:
- "Iindex" and "Isearch" command-line utilities for building and
searching text databases.
- Fast searching with relevance-ranked results.
- Indexing/searching engine core is designed as an object-oriented C++
class library to allow you to build fast text searching capabilities
into your own applications.
- Integrated with CNIDR Search API.
HOW TO GET CNIDR ISITE
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CNIDR Isite is available via anonymous ftp at
<URL:ftp://ftp.cnidr.org/pub/NIDR.tools/Isite/Isite-1.00.tar.gz>
Pre-compiled binaries for some platforms will be found in the same
directory (for those that do not have g++). More binaries will be
available over time. Isearch binaries can be found under
/pub/NIDR.tools/Isearch/.
HOW TO SUBSCRIBE TO THE ISITE MAILING LIST
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A mailing list has been set up for discussion of this system. To
subscribe, send a message to
listserv@vinca.cnidr.org
with the body of the message being
subscribe ISITE-L Your Name
To post messages to the list, send them to
ISITE-L@vinca.cnidr.org
DOCUMENTATION FOR CNIDR ISITE
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For documentation of the system's components:
<URL:http://vinca.cnidr.org/software/Isite/Isite.html>
--- Contact: Kevin.Gamiel@cnidr.org or Nassib.Nassar@cnidr.org