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- xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"
- xmlns:xl="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
- <title>Glossary</title>
- <abstract>
- <para>In this section we expand acronyms, define terms, and generally try
- to explain concepts used by Evergreen software.</para>
- </abstract>
- <glossdiv>
- <title>A</title>
- <glossentry xml:id="Apache">
- <glossterm>Apache</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>Apache</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>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
- <ulink url="http://apache.org">http://apache.org</ulink>.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
- <glossdiv>
- <title>B</title>
- <glossentry xml:id="Book_Bags">
- <glossterm>Bookbags</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>bookbags</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>Bookbags are lists of items that can be used for any number of
- purposes. For example, to keep track of what books you have read,
- books you would like to read, to maintain a class reading list, to
- maintain a reading list for a book club, to keep a list of books you
- would like for your birthday. There are an unlimited number of
- uses.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
- <glossdiv>
- <title>C</title>
- <glossentry xml:id="CentOS">
- <glossterm>CentOS</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>Linux</primary>
- <secondary>CentOS</secondary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>A popular open-source operating system based on Red Hat
- Enterprises <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem>
- (also known as "RHEL") and often used for in web servers. More
- information is available at
- <ulink url="http://www.centos.org">http://www.centos.org</ulink>.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry xml:id="closure">
- <glossterm>Closure Compiler</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>A suite of open-source tools used to build web applications with
- <application>Javascript</application>; originally developed by Google.
- It is used to create special builds of the Evergreen Staff Client.
- More information is available at
- <ulink url="http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/">
- http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/</ulink>.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry xml:id="CPAN">
- <glossterm>CPAN</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>Perl</primary>
- <secondary>CPAN</secondary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>An open-source archive of software modules written in
- <application>Perl</application>. More information is available at
- <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org">http://www.cpan.org</ulink>.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="Perl"/>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
- <glossdiv>
- <title>D</title>
- <glossentry xml:id="Debian">
- <glossterm>Debian</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>Linux</primary>
- <secondary>Debian</secondary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>One of the most popular open-source operating system based on the
- <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> kernel that provides
- over 25000 useful precompiled software packages. Also known as
- <systemitem class="osname">Debian GNU/Linux</systemitem>. More
- information is available at
- <ulink url="http://www.debian.org">http://www.debian.org</ulink>.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="Fedora"/>
- <glossseealso otherterm="Ubuntu"/>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry>
- <glossterm>Domain name</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>domain name</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>A unique set of case-insensitive, alphanumeric strings
- separated by periods that are used to name organizations, web sites
- and addresses on the Internet (e.g.:
- <uri>www.esilibrary.com</uri>). Domain names can be reserved via
- third-party registration services, and can be associated with a
- unique IP address or suite of IP addresses.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="ipaddress"/>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
- <glossdiv>
- <title>E</title>
- <glossentry xml:id="ejabberd">
- <glossterm>ejabberd</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>ejabberd</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>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.,
- <systemitem class="osname">Mac OSX</systemitem>,
- <systemitem class="osname">GNU/Linux</systemitem>, and
- <systemitem class="osname">Microsoft Windows</systemitem>). One
- popular use is to provide <application>XMPP</application> messaging
- services for a <application>Jabber</application> domain across an
- extendable cluster of cheap, easily-replaced machine nodes. More
- information is available at
- <ulink url="http://www.ejabberd.im/">http://www.ejabberd.im</ulink>.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="Jabber"/>
- <glossseealso otherterm="XMPP"/>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
- <glossdiv>
- <title>F</title>
- <glossentry xml:id="Fedora">
- <glossterm>Fedora</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>Linux</primary>
- <secondary>Fedora</secondary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>A popular open-source operating system based on the
- <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> kernel.
- More information is available at
- <ulink url="http://http://fedoraproject.org/">http://fedoraproject.org/</ulink>.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="Debian"/>
- <glossseealso otherterm="Ubuntu"/>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
- <glossdiv>
- <title>G</title>
- <glossentry xml:id="Gentoo">
- <glossterm>Gentoo</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>Linux</primary>
- <secondary>Gentoo</secondary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>A popular open-source operating system built on the
- <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> kernel. More
- information is available at
- <ulink url="http://www.gentoo.org">http://www.gentoo.org</ulink>.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
- <glossdiv>
- <title>H</title>
- <glossentry></glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
- <glossdiv>
- <title>I</title>
- <glossentry xml:id="ipaddress">
- <glossterm>IP Address</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>IP Address</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>(Internet Protocol address) A numerical label consisting of
- four numbers separated by periods (e.g., "192.168.1.15") assigned to
- individual members of networked computing systems. It uniquely
- identifies each system on the network and allows controlled
- communication between such systems. The numerical label scheme must
- adhere to a strictly defined naming convention that is currently
- defined and overseen by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
- and Numbers ("ICANN").</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry xml:id="Item_Buckets">
- <glossterm>Item/copy Buckets</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>copy buckets</primary>
- <seealso>item buckets</seealso>
- </indexterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>item buckets</primary>
- <seealso>copy buckets</seealso>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>Virtual <quote>containers</quote> to use in batch processing
- of item or copy records. They can be used to perform various
- cataloging/holdings maintenance tasks in batch.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
- <glossdiv>
- <title>J</title>
- <glossentry xml:id="Jabber">
- <glossterm>Jabber</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>jabber</primary>
- <seealso>XMPP</seealso>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>The communications protocol used for client-server message
- passing within Evergreen. Now known as XMPP (eXtensible Messaging and
- Presence Protocol), it was originally named "Jabber".</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="XMPP"/>
- <glossseealso otherterm="ejabberd"/>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
- <glossdiv>
- <title>K</title>
- <glossentry></glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
- <glossdiv>
- <title>L</title>
- <glossentry></glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
- <glossdiv>
- <title>M</title>
- <glossentry xml:id="MARC">
- <glossterm>MARC</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>MARC</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>The MARC formats are standards for the representation and
- communication of bibliographic and related information in
- machine-readable form.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry xml:id="MARCXML">
- <glossterm>MARCXML</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>MARCXML</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>Framework for working with MARC data in a XML environment.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry xml:id="McCoy">
- <glossterm>McCoy</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>An open-source application that allows add-on authors to
- provide secure updates to their users. It is used to create special
- builds of the Evergreen Staff Client. More information is available
- at <ulink url="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/McCoy">
- http://developer.mozilla.org/en/McCoy</ulink>.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry xml:id="memcached">
- <glossterm>memcached</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>memcached</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>A general-purpose distributed memory caching system, usually
- with a client-server architecture spread over multiple computing
- systems. It reduces the number of times a data source (e.g., a
- database) must be directly accessed by temporarily caching data in
- memory, therefore dramatically speeding up database-driven web
- applications.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
- <glossdiv>
- <title>N</title>
- <glossentry xml:id="netaddr">
- <glossterm>Network address</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>network address</primary>
- <seealso>ip address</seealso>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>Also known as an IP address (Internet Protocol address).</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="ipaddress"/>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry xml:id="nsis">
- <glossterm>nsis</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>An open-source software tool used to create Windows
- installers. It is used to create special builds of the Evergreen
- Staff Client. More information is available at
- <ulink url="http://nsis.sourceforge.net">
- http://nsis.sourceforge.net</ulink>.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
- <glossdiv>
- <title>O</title>
- <glossentry xml:id="OPAC">
- <glossterm>OPAC</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>OPAC</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>The "Online Public Access Catalog"; an online database of a
- library's holdings; used to find resources in their collections;
- possibly searchable by keyword, title, author, subject or call
- number.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry xml:id="OpenSRF">
- <glossterm>OpenSRF</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>OpenSRF</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>The "Open Scalable Request Framework" (pronounced 'open surf')
- is a stateful, decentralized service architecture that allows
- developers to create applications for Evergreen with a minimum of
- knowledge of its structure.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
- <glossdiv>
- <title>P</title>
- <glossentry xml:id="Perl">
- <glossterm>Perl</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>Perl</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>The high-level scripting language in which most of the business logic of
- Evergreen is written.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="CPAN"/>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry xml:id="PKI">
- <glossterm>PKI</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>PKI</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) describes the schemes needed
- to generate and maintain digital SSL Certificates.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="SSL_Certificate"/>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry xml:id="PostgreSQL">
- <glossterm>PostgreSQL</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>databases</primary>
- <secondary>PostgreSQL</secondary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>A popular open-source object-relational database management
- system that underpins Evergreen software.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry xml:id="putty">
- <glossterm>PuTTY</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>SSH</primary>
- <secondary>Putty</secondary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>A popular open-source telnet/ssh client for the Windows and
- Unix platforms. As used in Evergreen, a handy utility used to create
- an SSH Tunnel for connecting Staff Clients to Evergreen servers over
- insecure networks. More information is available at
- <ulink url="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/">
- http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/</ulink>.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="sshtunnel"/>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
- <glossdiv>
- <title>Q</title>
- <glossentry></glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
- <glossdiv>
- <title>R</title>
- <glossentry xml:id="Resource_Hacker">
- <glossterm>Resource Hacker</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>An open-source utility used to view, modify, rename, add,
- delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables. It is
- used to create special builds of the Evergreen Staff Client. More
- information is available at
- <ulink url="http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/">
- Resource Hacker</ulink></para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry xml:id="RHEL">
- <glossterm>RHEL</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>Linux</primary>
- <secondary>RHEL</secondary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>Also known as "Red Hat Enterprises
- <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem>". An official
- <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> distribution that is
- targeted at the commercial market. It is the basis of other popular
- <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> distributions, e.g.,
- <systemitem class="osname">CentOS</systemitem>. More information is
- available at
- <ulink url="http://www.redhat.com">http://www.redhat.com</ulink>.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
- <glossdiv>
- <title>S</title>
- <glossentry xml:id="SIP2">
- <glossterm>SIP</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>SIP</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>SIP (Standard Interchange Protocol) is a communications
- protocol used within Evergreen for transferring data to and from
- other third party devices, such as RFID and barcode scanners that
- handle patron and library material information. Version 2.0 (also
- known as "SIP2") is the current standard. It was originally
- developed by the 3M Corporation.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry xml:id="srfsh">
- <indexterm>
- <primary>srfsh</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossterm>srfsh</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>A command language interpreter (shell) that executes commands
- read from the standard input. It is used to test the Open Service
- Request Framework (OpenSRF).</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry xml:id="SRU">
- <glossterm>SRU</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>SRU</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>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.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="SRW"/>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry xml:id="SRW">
- <glossterm>SRW</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>SRW</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>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.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="SRU"/>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry xml:id="ssh">
- <glossterm>SSH</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>SSH</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>An encrypted network protocol using public-key cryptography
- that allows secure communications between systems on an insecure
- network. Typically used to access shell accounts but also supports
- tunneling, forwarding TCP ports and X11 connections, and
- transferring files.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry xml:id="sshproxy">
- <glossterm>SSH proxy</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>SSH</primary>
- <secondary>proxy</secondary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>As used in Evergreen, a method of allowing one or more Staff
- Clients to communicate with one or more Evergreen servers over an
- insecure network by sending data through a secure SSH tunnel. It
- also buffers and caches all data travelling to and from Staff
- Clients to speed up access to resources on Evergreen servers.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="ssh"/>
- <glossseealso otherterm="tunneling"/>
- <glossseealso otherterm="sshtunnel"/>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry xml:id="sshtunnel">
- <glossterm>SSH tunnel</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>SSH</primary>
- <secondary>tunneling</secondary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>An encrypted data channel existing over an SSH network
- connection. Used to securely transfer unencrypted data streams over
- insecure networks.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="ssh"/>
- <glossseealso otherterm="tunneling"/>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry xml:id="SSL_Certificate">
- <glossterm>SSL Certificate</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>SSL</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>As used in Evergreen, it is a method of ensuring that Staff
- Clients are able to connect to legitimate Evergreen servers.</para>
- <para>In general, it is a special electronic document used to
- guarantee authenticity of a digital message. Also known as a "public
- key", or "identity" or "digital" certificate. It combines an
- identity (of a person or an organization) and a unique public key to
- form a so-called digital signature, and is used to verify that the
- public key does, in fact, belong with that particular
- identity.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="PKI"/>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry xml:id="SuperCat">
- <glossterm>SuperCat</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>SuperCat</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>A popular commercial utility used to catalog, search and manage the
- contents of media such as CDs and DVDs.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="PKI"/>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
- <glossdiv>
- <title>T</title>
- <glossentry xml:id="tunneling">
- <glossterm>tunneling</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>tunneling</primary>
- <seealso>SSH tunneling</seealso>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>As used in Evergreen, it is a method of allowing Staff Clients
- to securely connect to legitimate Evergreen servers.</para>
- <para>In general, it is a method of encapsulating data provided in
- one network protocol (the "delivery"protocol), within data in a
- different network protocol (the "tunneling" protocol). Used to
- provide a secure path and secure communications through an insecure
- or incompatible network. Can be used to bypass firewalls by
- communicating via a protocol the firewall normally blocks, but
- "wrapped" inside a protocol that the firewall does not block.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="sshtunnel"/>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
- <glossdiv>
- <title>U</title>
- <glossentry xml:id="Ubuntu">
- <glossterm>Ubuntu</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>Linux</primary>
- <secondary>Ubuntu</secondary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>A popular open-source operating system based on the
- <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> kernel that was
- originally based on the
- <systemitem class="osname">Debian GNU/Linux</systemitem>
- operating system. More information is available at
- <ulink url="http://www.ubuntu.com">http://www.ubuntu.com</ulink>.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="Debian"/>
- <glossseealso otherterm="Fedora"/>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
- <glossdiv>
- <title>V</title>
- <glossentry xml:id="virtualization">
- <glossterm>Virtualization</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>virtualization</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>A method of executing software in a special environment that
- is partitioned or separated from the real underlying hardware and
- software resources. In typical usage, it allows a
- <emphasis>host</emphasis> operating system to encapsulate or emulate
- a <emphasis>guest</emphasis> 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
- <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> operating system
- running Evergreen software to execute within a
- <systemitem class="osname">Windows</systemitem> environment.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="virtualbox"/>
- <glossseealso otherterm="virtualpc"/>
- <glossseealso otherterm="vmware"/>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry xml:id="virtualbox">
- <glossterm>VirtualBox</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>virtualization software</primary>
- <secondary>VirtualBox</secondary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>A popular commercial package of virtualization software that
- emulates the x86 microprocessor architecture. It can be installed on
- <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem>,
- <systemitem class="osname">Mac OS X</systemitem>,
- <systemitem class="osname">Windows</systemitem> or
- <systemitem class="osname">Solaris</systemitem> "host" operating
- systems and allows other "guest" (typically including
- <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> and
- <systemitem class="osname">Windows</systemitem>) operating systems
- to be loaded and executed.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="virtualization"/>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry xml:id="virtualpc">
- <glossterm>Virtual PC</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>virtualization software</primary>
- <secondary>Virtual PC</secondary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>A popular commercial package of virtualization software that
- emulates the x86 microprocessor architecture. It is installed on a
- Windows "host" operating system and allows other "guest" (typically
- including <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> and
- <systemitem class="osname">Windows</systemitem>) operating systems
- to be loaded and executed.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="virtualization"/>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry xml:id="vmware">
- <glossterm>VMware</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>virtualization software</primary>
- <secondary>VMware</secondary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>A popular commercial package of virtualization software that
- emulates the x86 microprocessor architecture. It can be installed on
- <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem>,
- <systemitem class="osname">Mac OS X</systemitem>,
- <systemitem class="osname">Windows</systemitem> or
- <systemitem class="osname">Solaris</systemitem> "host" operating systems
- and allows other "guest" (typically including
- <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> and
- <systemitem class="osname">Windows</systemitem>) operating systems
- to be loaded and executed.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="virtualization"/>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry xml:id="Volume_Buckets">
- <glossterm>Volume Buckets</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>volume buckets</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>Virtual <quote>containers</quote> to use in batch processing
- of multiple volumes. They can be used to perform various
- cataloging/holdings maintenance tasks in batch.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
- <glossdiv>
- <title>W</title>
- <glossentry xml:id="wine">
- <glossterm>Wine</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>Linux</primary>
- <secondary>Wine</secondary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>A popular open-source application that allows
- <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> and
- <systemitem class="osname">Unix</systemitem>
- systems to run <systemitem class="osname">Windows</systemitem>
- executables. More information is available at
- <ulink url="http://www.winehq.org/">http://www.winehq.org/</ulink>.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
- <glossdiv>
- <title>X</title>
- <glossentry xml:id="xml">
- <glossterm>XML</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>XML</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>The eXtensible Markup Language, a subset of SGML; a set of
- rules for encoding information in a way that is both human- and
- machine-readable. It is primarily used to define documents but can
- also be used to define arbitrary data structures. It was originally
- defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry xml:id="XMPP">
- <glossterm>XMPP</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>XMPP</primary>
- <seealso>jabber</seealso>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>The open-standard communications protocol (based on XML) used
- for client-server message passing within Evergreen. It supports the
- concept of a consistent <emphasis>domain</emphasis> of message types
- that flow between software applications, possibly on different
- operating systems and architectures. More information is available
- at <ulink url="http://xmpp.org">http://xmpp.org</ulink>.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="Jabber"/>
- <glossseealso otherterm="ejabberd"/>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry xml:id="xpath">
- <glossterm>xpath</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>xpath</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>The XML Path Language, a query language based on a tree
- representation of an XML document. It is used to programmatically
- select nodes from an XML document and to do minor computation
- involving strings, numbers and Boolean values. It allows you to
- identify parts of the XML document tree, to navigate around the
- tree, and to uniquely select nodes. The currently version is "XPath
- 2.0". It was originally defined by the World Wide Web Consortium
- (W3C).</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry xml:id="xul">
- <glossterm>XUL</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>xUL</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>The XML User Interface Language, a specialized interface
- language that allows building cross-platform applications that drive
- <application>Mozilla</application>-based browsers such as
- <application>Firefox</application>. More information is available at
- <ulink url="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL">
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL</ulink>.</para>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry xml:id="xulrunner">
- <glossterm>xulrunner</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>XULRunner</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>A specialized run-time application environment that provides
- support for installing, upgrading and uninstalling
- <application>XUL</application> applications. It operates with
- <application>Mozilla</application>-based applications such as the
- <application>Firefox</application> browser. More information is
- available at
- <ulink url="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XULRunner">
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XULRunner</ulink>.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="xul"/>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
- <glossdiv>
- <title>Y</title>
- <glossentry xml:id="YAZ">
- <glossterm>YAZ</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>yaz</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>A programmers’ toolkit supporting the development of
- Z39.50 / SRW / SRU clients and servers.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="SRU"/>
- <glossseealso otherterm="SRW"/>
- <glossseealso otherterm="Z39.50"/>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- <glossentry xml:id="yaz-client">
- <indexterm>
- <primary>yaz</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossterm>yaz-client</glossterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>A Z39.50/SRU client for connecting to YAZ servers.
- More information is available at
- <ulink url="http://www.indexdata.com/yaz/doc/yaz-client.html">
- http://www.indexdata.com/yaz/doc/yaz-client.html</ulink></para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="SRU"/>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
- <glossdiv>
- <title>Z</title>
- <glossentry xml:id="Z39.50">
- <glossterm>Z39.50</glossterm>
- <indexterm>
- <primary>Z39.50</primary>
- </indexterm>
- <glossdef>
- <para>An international standard client–server protocol for
- communication between computer systems, primarily library and
- information related systems.</para>
- <glossseealso otherterm="SRU"/>
- </glossdef>
- </glossentry>
- </glossdiv>
-</glossary>
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