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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Cheshire3 Information Framework</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/cheshire3.css"></link>
<!--[if lt IE 7]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="/cheshire3-ie.css">
<![endif]-->
<!--[if gte IE 7]>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="/cheshire3-ie7.css">
<![endif]-->
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="maintitle">
<tr height="75">
<td class="cheshirelogo">
<img src="/gfx/c3_white.gif"/>
</td>
<td width="10">
<img src="/gfx/slant_grey.gif"/>
</td>
<td align="center">
<h1>About Cheshire3</h1>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<div id="navbar">
<ul class="navmenu">
<li class="navtab"><a href="/" title="Home">Home</a></li>
<li class="navtab">
<a href="/download/" title="Download">Download</a>
<ul class="subnav">
<li class="subtab"><a href="/download/index.html#latest">Download Cheshire3</a></li>
<li class="subtab"><a href="/download/index.html#docs" title="Instructions for Installation and Use">Installation</a></li>
<li class="subtab"><a href="/download/index.html#dbs" title="Example Database and Systems">Databases</a></li>
<li class="subtab"><a href="/download/index.html#apps" title="Complete Cheshire3 Systems">Applications</a></li>
<li class="subtab"><a href="/download/index.html#cvs" title="Download Cheshire3 using CVS / SVN">CVS / SVN</a></li>
<li class="subtab"><a href="/download/index.html#archived" title="Older Releases of Cheshire3">Older Versions</a></li>
<li class="subtab"><a href="/download/index.html#legal" title="Legal notices and disclaimers">Legal</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="navtab">
<a href="/docs/" title="Documentation">Documentation</a>
<ul class="subnav">
<li class="subtab"><a href="/docs/install.html" title="Installation">Installation</a></li>
<li class="subtab"><a href="/docs/build/" title="Building Databases">Building Databases</a></li>
<li class="subtab"><a href="/docs/config/" title="Configuration Details">Configuration</a></li>
<li class="subtab"><a href="/docs/script/script_search.html" title="Search and Display from the command line">Searching</a></li>
<li class="subtab"><a href="/docs/script/script_apache.html" title="Building a Web Interface">Web-Interface</a></li>
<li class="subtab"><a href="/docs/troubleshooting.html" title="Troubleshooting section">Troubleshooting</a></li>
<li class="subtab"><a href="/docs/objects/" title="Cheshire3 Object Model">Object Model</a></li>
<li class="subtab"><a href="/docs/objects/api/" title="Application Programming Interface">API</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li class="navtab"><a href="http://github.com/cheshire3/cheshire3/wiki/" title="Wiki">Wiki</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="fieldset" id="about">
<span class="legend">What is Cheshire3?</span>
<p>
<strong>Cheshire3</strong> is a fast open source XML search
engine written in Python for extensability and using C
libraries for speed.
</p>
<p>
If you're looking for an open source search software solution,
then <strong>Cheshire3</strong> could be just what you need!
</p>
</div>
<div class="fieldset" id="capabilities">
<span class="legend">Capabilities</span>
<p>
Given a set of records, Cheshire3 can extract data into one
or more indexes after processing with configurable workflows
to add extra normalisation and processing. Once the indexes
have been built, it supports such operations as ranked search,
faceted search, record retrieval, browse and on demand result
re-ordering or sort.
</p>
<p>
A 'formats' plugin provides support for ingest of Document
types other than XML (e.g. Office documents, PDFs etc.)
Plugins are also available to help carry out more advanced tasks:
</p>
<ul>
<li>Data mining</li>
<li><abbr title="Natural Language Processing">NLP</abbr> and Corpus Linguistics</li>
<li><abbr title="Resource Description Framework">RDF</abbr> based records</li>
<li><abbr title="Structured Query Language">SQL</abbr> based
Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) Support</li>
<li>Parallel processing</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="fieldset" id="features">
<span class="legend">Features</span>
<p>
<strong>Cheshire3</strong> is feature rich, including support for
XML namespaces, unicode, a distributable object oriented model
and all the features expected of a digital library system.
It is Open Source, and standards are foremost, including
<abbr title="Search/Retrieve Webservice">SRW</abbr>,
<abbr title="Search/Retrieve via URL">SRU</abbr> and
<abbr title="Contextual Query Language">CQL</abbr>,
as well as Z39.50.
</p>
</div>
<div class="fieldset" id="interfaces">
<span class="legend">Interfaces</span>
<p>
<strong>Cheshire3</strong> is highly modular and configurable,
enabling very specific needs to be addressed with a minimum
of effort. The API is stable and fully documented, allowing
easy third party development of components, scripts and
interfaces.
</p>
<p>
Using mod_python handlers, or WSGI scripts, any interface from
an online shop front, to Z39.50 to
<abbr title="Search/Retrieve via URL">SRU</abbr> to
<abbr title="Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metedata Harvesting">OAI-PMH</abbr>
can be provided (all included by default in the 'web'
plugin.) The abstract protocolHandler allows integration
into any environment that will support execution of Python
code.
</p>
</div>
</body>
</html>