Zebra Server - Administrators' Guide and Reference

Sebastian Hammer

Adam Dickmeiss

Heikki Levanto

Copyright © 1995-2002 by Index Data

The Zebra information server combines a versatile fielded/free-text search engine with a Z39.50 v3 front-end to provide a powerful and flexible information management system. This document explains the procedure for installing and configuring the system, managing data and providing Z39.50 services with the software.

This manual covers version 1.3.0 of Zebra.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

Overview
Features
Future Work

2. Installation

3. Quick Start

4. Administrating Zebra

Record Types

The Zebra Configuration File

Locating Records

Indexing with no Record IDs (Simple Indexing)

Indexing with File Record IDs

Indexing with General Record IDs

Register Location

Safe Updating - Using Shadow Registers

Description
How to Use Shadow Register Files

5. Running the Maintenance Interface (zebraidx)

6. The Z39.50 Server

Running the Z39.50 Server (zebrasrv)

Z39.50 Protocol Support and Behavior

Initialization
Search
Present
Scan
Sort
Close

7. The Record Model

Local Representation

Canonical Input Format
Input Filters

Internal Representation

Tagged Elements
Variants
Data Elements

Configuring Your Data Model

The Abstract Syntax
The Configuration Files
The Abstract Syntax (.abs) Files
The Attribute Set (.att) Files
The Tag Set (.tag) Files
The Variant Set (.var) Files
The Element Set (.est) Files
The Schema Mapping (.map) Files
The MARC (ISO2709) Representation (.mar) Files
Field Structure and Character Sets

Exchange Formats

GNU General Public License

B. About Index Data and the Zebra Server

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