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ASF Freeware ( download )
- Integrates freeware components
- Full software suite for Linux, SUN Solaris
- Source code for porting and customization
- Include basic documentation and training materials
- Freely distributed via Internet and CD-ROM
- Features
- Document Types
- ASCII text
- USMARC records
- Electronic mail folders
- Usenet news archives
- US patents
- IAFA templates
- BIBTeX
- Filenames
- MEDLINE
- First line in file
- SGML tagged fields
- HTML
- GILS templates
- FGDC templates
- Colon delimited fields
- GCMD DIF templates
- whois++ templates
- Multi-file documents
- Query
- Full-text, fielded Boolean, spatial queries
- Gateway to Z39.50
- Multiple (parallel) sessions
- Integrated with Apache
- Search & browse of document
- Search & browse of locator records
- Search
- Full text & field search
- Search on numeric fields using >, <, =
- Search on date fields using before, during, after
- Search on geospatial bounding box
- Boolean searches
- Phrase searching
- GILS template generation
- Right truncation
- Proximity searching (within N characters)
- Case insensitive searching, punctuation ignored
- Configurable stopword list
- Customizable results presentation Relevance ranked scores
- Term weighting
- Advanced Query Processing
- Query Pre-processing
- Synonym expansion
- Weighted suggestion of search targets
- Manual selection search targets
- Query Distribution
- Management of site-related problems
- Management of system loading & resources
- Gatherer
- Extracts and compiles documents using GILS-compliant search interface,
as well as hyperlinks and directories
- Includes Pavuk; other freeware gatherers available (e.g., Combine, ht://dig)
- Extracts HTML embedded metadata (PICS, Dublin Core, GILS, other)
- Directory
- Collect summary locator records ("centroids") from other servers
- Locate other relevant sites
- Virtual Topic Trees
- Servers can be in multiple trees
- Easy connection to existing trees
- Z39.50 Support
- Z39.50 version 2 and version 3 standard interface to searchable collections
- ASF is GILS-compliant
- Multiple Attribute Sets (Bib-1, GILS, STAS, Geospatial)
- Based on IndexData YAZ, a robust and well-designed toolkit