From: Steve Sheppard Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 18:06:44 +0000 (-0500) Subject: update glossary; X-Git-Url: https://old-git.evergreen-ils.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=a12e3b4182d8ffcefb544200736a0a50c0c904f9;p=contrib%2FConifer.git update glossary; --- diff --git a/1.6/appendices/glossary.xml b/1.6/appendices/glossary.xml index 31d6cde9f6..59c3a16342 100644 --- a/1.6/appendices/glossary.xml +++ b/1.6/appendices/glossary.xml @@ -15,14 +15,14 @@ Open-source web server software used to serve both static content and dynamic web pages in a secure and reliable way. More - information is available at + information is available at http://apache.org. B - + Bookbags bookbags @@ -48,8 +48,8 @@ A popular open-source operating system based on Red Hat Enterprises Linux - (a.k.a. "RHEL") and often used for in web servers. More - information is available at + (also known as "RHEL") and often used for in web servers. More + information is available at http://www.centos.org. @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ A suite of open-source tools used to build web applications with Javascript; originally developed by Google. It is used to create special builds of the Evergreen Staff Client. - More information is available at + More information is available at http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/. @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ An open-source archive of software modules written in - Perl. More information is available at + Perl. More information is available at http://www.cpan.org. @@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ Linux kernel that provides over 25000 useful precompiled software packages. Also known as Debian GNU/Linux. More - information is available at + information is available at http://www.debian.org. @@ -122,13 +122,13 @@ An open-source Jabber/XMPP instant messaging server that is used for client-server message passing within Evergreen. It runs under popular operating systems (e.g., - Mac OSX, - GNU/Linux, and + Mac OSX, + GNU/Linux, and Microsoft Windows). One popular use is to provide XMPP messaging services for a Jabber domain across an extendable cluster of cheap, easily-replaced machine nodes. More - information is available at + information is available at http://www.ejabberd.im. @@ -150,7 +150,7 @@ A popular open-source operating system built on the Linux kernel. More - information is available at + information is available at http://www.gentoo.org. @@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ and Numbers ("ICANN"). - + Item/copy Buckets copy buckets @@ -374,7 +374,7 @@ R - + Resource Hacker An open-source utility used to view, modify, rename, add, @@ -392,13 +392,13 @@ RHEL - Also known as "Red Hat Enterprises - Linux". An official + Also known as "Red Hat Enterprises + Linux". An official Linux distribution that is targeted at the commercial market. It is the basis of other popular Linux distributions, e.g., CentOS. More information is - available at + available at http://www.redhat.com. @@ -436,9 +436,24 @@ SRU - SRU is a standard XML-focused search protocol for Internet - search queries, utilizing CQL (Contextual Query Language), a - standard syntax for representing queries. + SRU (Search & Retrieve URL Service) is a search protocol + used in web search and retrieval. It expresses queries in Contextual + Query Language (CQL) and transmits them as a URL, returning XML data + as if it were a web page. + + + + + SRW + + SRW + + + SRW (Search & Retrieve Web Service), also known as "SRU + via HTTP SOAP", is a search protocol used in web search and + retrieval. It uses a SOAP interface and expresses both the query and + result as XML data streams. + @@ -485,7 +500,7 @@ - + SSL Certificate SSL @@ -535,11 +550,11 @@ Ubuntu - A popular open-source operating system using the + A popular open-source operating system using the Linux kernel that was - originally based on the - Debian GNU/Linux - operating system. More information is available at + originally based on the + Debian GNU/Linux + operating system. More information is available at http://www.ubuntu.com. @@ -557,11 +572,15 @@ is partitioned or separated from the real underlying hardware and software resources. In typical usage, it allows a host operating system to encapsulate or emulate - another operating system environment in such a way that the emulated - environment is completely unaware of the hosting environment. For - instance, it allows a Linux - application to execute within a + a guest operating system environment in such a + way that the emulated environment is completely unaware of the + hosting environment. As used in Evergreen, it enables a copy of the + Linux operating system + running Evergreen software to execute within a Windows environment. + + + @@ -575,10 +594,10 @@ emulates the x86 microprocessor architecture. It can be installed on Linux, Mac OS X, - Windows or + Windows or Solaris "host" operating - systems and allows other "guest" (typically including - Linux and + systems and allows other "guest" (typically including + Linux and Windows) operating systems to be loaded and executed. @@ -600,17 +619,6 @@ - - Volume Buckets - - volume buckets - - - Virtual containers to use in batch processing - of multiple volumes. They can be used to perform various - cataloging/holdings maintenance tasks in batch. - - VMware @@ -620,17 +628,28 @@ A popular commercial package of virtualization software that emulates the x86 microprocessor architecture. It can be installed on - Linux, + Linux, Mac OS X, - Windows or - Solaris "host" operating systems - and allows other "guest" (typically including - Linux and - Windows) operating systems + Windows or + Solaris "host" operating systems + and allows other "guest" (typically including + Linux and + Windows) operating systems to be loaded and executed. + + Volume Buckets + + volume buckets + + + Virtual containers to use in batch processing + of multiple volumes. They can be used to perform various + cataloging/holdings maintenance tasks in batch. + + W @@ -642,10 +661,10 @@ A popular open-source application that allows - Linux and + Linux and Unix - systems to run Windows - executables. More information is available at + systems to run Windows + executables. More information is available at http://www.winehq.org/. @@ -739,7 +758,10 @@ A programmers’ toolkit supporting the development of - Z39.50/SRW/SRU clients and servers. + Z39.50 / SRW / SRU clients and servers. + + + @@ -748,10 +770,11 @@ yaz-client - Z39.50/SRU client for connecting to YAZ servers. - More information is available at - - http://www.indexdata.com/yaz + A Z39.50/SRU client for connecting to YAZ servers. + More information is available at + + http://www.indexdata.com/yaz/doc/yaz-client.html + @@ -763,8 +786,10 @@ Z39.50 - A client–server protocol for searching and retrieving - information from remote computer databases. + An international standard client–server protocol for + communication between computer systems, primarily library and + information related systems. +