Hi everybody,
I recently posted a quick summary regarding DC support
in search engines. Thanks again for all the feedback
I received in the following days.
Ron Klatchko pointed me at the SWISH-E indexing software
which is freely available from the Berkeley Digital Library
web site. I gave it shot and did a quick test run with
our records. Here the result in brief:
PRODUCT NAME: SWISH-E
PRICE: Freeware (nada, so don't complain if it doesn't work)
METATAG SUPPORT: YES
METATAGS CONFIGURABLE: YES
OS: UNIX, NT
SCRIPTING: PERL or any other scripting language which
has shell access.
DEMO FOR DOWNLOAD: http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/SWISH-E/
COMMENTS: SWISH-E is a command line search software
which can be interfaced with though HTML to be used
on the web. There is a front end for web use available
call AutoSwish. It was originally designed for
UNIX but the Source code is freely available and was
ported to WindowsNT.
We tested the software on 1.000, 10.000 records and
100.000 records. The 10.000 record test went fine
but the search result where somewhat unreliable.
When we searched for the term "museum" the software only
picked up 14 records although it was in about 1.000 records.
Trying to index all 100.000 records at once failed because
of the software's memory management (an index is held in the
memory until all documents are indexed and only then the
index will be written to the hard disk).
Swish-E is very simple to configure and use and it's free.
Problems we encountered could be related to the WindowsNT
Port we had. If you are running some form of UNIX I suggest
you do your own tests.
Thanks,
Thomas Hofmann
AMOL Coordination Unit
email: [log in to unmask]
www: http://amol.phm.gov.au/
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