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2 <glossary xml:id="Glossary" xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude" xmlns:xl="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
3 <title>Glossary</title>
5 <para>In this section we expand acronyms, define terms, and generally try
6 to explain concepts used by Evergreen software.</para>
10 <glossentry id="Apache">
11 <glossterm>Apache</glossterm>
13 <primary>Apache</primary>
16 <para>Open-source web server software used to serve both static content and
17 dynamic web pages in a secure and reliable way. More information is available
18 at <ulink url="http://apache.org">http://apache.org</ulink>.</para>
24 <glossentry id="Book Bags">
25 <glossterm>Bookbags</glossterm>
27 <primary>bookbags</primary>
30 <para>Bookbags are lists of items that can be used for any number of
31 purposes. For example, to keep track of what books you have read, books you
32 would like to read, to maintain a class reading list, to maintain a reading
33 list for a book club, to keep a list of books you would like for your
34 birthday. There are an unlimited number of uses.</para>
40 <glossentry id="CentOS">
41 <glossterm>CentOS</glossterm>
43 <primary>Linux</primary>
44 <secondary>CentOS</secondary>
47 <para>A popular open-source operating system based on Red Hat Enterprises
48 <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> (a.k.a. "RHEL") and often used
49 for in web servers. More information is available at <ulink url="http://www.centos.org">http://www.centos.org</ulink>.</para>
52 <glossentry id="closure">
53 <glossterm>Closure Compiler</glossterm>
55 <para>A suite of open-source tools used to build web applications with
56 <application>Javascript</application>; originally developed by Google.
57 More information is available at
58 <ulink url="http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/">
59 http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/</ulink>.</para>
62 <glossentry id="CPAN">
63 <glossterm>CPAN</glossterm>
65 <primary>Perl</primary>
66 <secondary>CPAN</secondary>
69 <para>An open-source archive of software modules written in
70 <application>Perl</application>. More information is available at
71 <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org">http://www.cpan.org</ulink>.</para>
77 <glossentry id="Debian">
78 <glossterm>Debian</glossterm>
80 <primary>Linux</primary>
81 <secondary>Debian</secondary>
84 <para>One of the most popular open-source operating system using the
85 <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> kernel that provides over 25000
86 useful precompiled software packages. Also known as
87 <systemitem class="osname">Debian GNU/Linux</systemitem>. More information is
88 available at <ulink url="http://www.debian.org">http://www.debian.org</ulink>.</para>
92 <glossterm>Domain name</glossterm>
94 <primary>domain name</primary>
97 <para>A unique set of case-insensitive, alphanumeric strings separated by
98 periods that are used to name organizations, web sites and addresses on the
99 Internet (e.g.: <uri>www.esilibrary.com</uri>). Domain names can be reserved
100 via third-party registration services, and can be associated with a unique IP
101 address or suite of IP addresses.</para>
102 <glossseealso otherterm="ipaddress"/>
108 <glossentry id="ejabberd">
109 <glossterm>ejabberd</glossterm>
111 <primary>ejabberd</primary>
114 <para>An open-source Jabber/XMPP instant messaging server that runs under popular
115 operating systems (e.g., <systemitem class="osname">Mac OSX</systemitem>,
116 <systemitem class="osname">GNU/Linux</systemitem>, and
117 <systemitem class="osname">Microsoft Windows</systemitem>). One popular use is
118 to provide <application>XMPP</application> messaging services for a
119 <application>Jabber</application> domain across an extendable cluster of
120 cheap, easily-replaced machine nodes. More information is available at
121 <ulink url="http://www.ejabberd.im/">http://www.ejabberd.im</ulink>.</para>
122 <glossseealso otherterm="Jabber"/>
123 <glossseealso otherterm="XMPP"/>
129 <glossentry></glossentry>
133 <glossentry id="Gentoo">
134 <glossterm>Gentoo</glossterm>
136 <primary>Linux</primary>
137 <secondary>Gentoo</secondary>
140 <para>A popular open-source operating system built on the
141 <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> kernel. More information is available
142 at <ulink url="http://www.gentoo.org">http://www.gentoo.org</ulink>.</para>
148 <glossentry></glossentry>
152 <glossentry id="ipaddress">
153 <glossterm>IP Address</glossterm>
155 <primary>IP Address</primary>
158 <para>(Internet Protocol address) A numerical label consisting of four numbers
159 separated by periods (e.g., "192.168.1.15") assigned to individual members of
160 networked computing systems. It uniquely identifies each system on the network
161 and allows controlled communication between such systems. The numerical label
162 scheme must adhere to a strictly defined naming convention that is currently
163 defined and overseen by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and
164 Numbers ("ICANN").</para>
167 <glossentry id="Item Buckets">
168 <glossterm>Item/copy Buckets</glossterm>
170 <primary>copy buckets</primary>
171 <seealso>item buckets</seealso>
174 <primary>item buckets</primary>
175 <seealso>copy buckets</seealso>
178 <para>Virtual <quote>containers</quote> to use in batch processing of item or
179 copy records. They can be used to perform various cataloging/holdings
180 maintenance tasks in batch.</para>
186 <glossentry id="Jabber">
187 <glossterm>Jabber</glossterm>
189 <primary>jabber</primary>
190 <seealso>XMPP</seealso>
193 <para>Now known as XMPP (eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol), it was
194 originally named "Jabber".</para>
195 <glossseealso otherterm="XMPP"/>
201 <glossentry></glossentry>
205 <glossentry></glossentry>
209 <glossentry id="MARC">
210 <glossterm>MARC</glossterm>
212 <primary>MARC</primary>
215 <para>The MARC formats are standards for the representation and communication
216 of bibliographic and related information in machine-readable form.</para>
219 <glossentry id="MARCXML">
220 <glossterm>MARCXML</glossterm>
222 <primary>MARCXML</primary>
225 <para>Framework for working with MARC data in a XML environment.</para>
228 <glossentry id="McCoy">
229 <glossterm>McCoy</glossterm>
231 <para>An open-source application that allows add-on authors to provide secure
232 updates to their users. More information is available at
233 <ulink url="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/McCoy">
234 http://developer.mozilla.org/en/McCoy</ulink>.</para>
237 <glossentry id="memcached">
238 <glossterm>memcached</glossterm>
240 <primary>memcached</primary>
243 <para>A general-purpose distributed memory caching system, usually with a
244 client~server architecture spread over multiple computing systems. It reduces
245 the number of times a data source (e.g., a database) must be directly accessed
246 by temporarily caching data in memory, therefore dramatically speeding up
247 database-driven web applications.</para>
253 <glossentry id="netaddr">
254 <glossterm>Network address</glossterm>
256 <primary>network address</primary>
257 <seealso>ip address</seealso>
260 <para>Also known as an IP address (Internet Protocol address).</para>
261 <glossseealso otherterm="ipaddress"/>
264 <glossentry id="nsis">
265 <glossterm>nsis</glossterm>
267 <para>An open-source software tool used to create Windows installers.
268 More information is available at
269 <ulink url="http://nsis.sourceforge.net">http://nsis.sourceforge.net</ulink>.</para>
275 <glossentry id="OPAC">
276 <glossterm>OPAC</glossterm>
278 <primary>OPAC</primary>
281 <para>The "Online Public Access Catalog"; an online database of a library's
282 holdings; used to find resources in their collections; possibly searchable by
283 keyword, title, author, subject or call number.</para>
286 <glossentry id="OpenSRF">
287 <glossterm>OpenSRF</glossterm>
289 <primary>OpenSRF</primary>
292 <para>The "Open Scalable Request Framework" (pronounced 'open surf') is a
293 stateful, decentralized service architecture that allows developers to create
294 applications for Evergreen with a minimum of knowledge of its
301 <glossentry id="PKI">
302 <glossterm>PKI</glossterm>
304 <primary>PKI</primary>
307 <para>Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) describes the schemes needed to generate
308 and maintain digital SSL Certificates.</para>
309 <glossseealso otherterm="SSL Certificate"/>
312 <glossentry id="PostgreSQL">
313 <glossterm>PostgreSQL</glossterm>
315 <primary>databases</primary>
316 <secondary>PostgreSQL</secondary>
319 <para>A popular open-source object-relational database management system that
320 underpins Evergreen software.</para>
323 <glossentry id="putty">
324 <glossterm>Putty</glossterm>
326 <primary>SSH</primary>
327 <secondary>Putty</secondary>
330 <para>A popular open-source telnet/ssh client for the Windows and Unix
331 platforms. More information is available at
332 <ulink url="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/">
333 http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/</ulink>.</para>
339 <glossentry></glossentry>
343 <glossentry id="Resource Hacker">
344 <glossterm>Resource Hacker</glossterm>
346 <para>An open-source utility used to view, modify, rename, add, delete and
347 extract resources in 32bit Windows executables.
348 More information is available at
349 <ulink url="http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/">Resource Hacker</ulink></para>
352 <glossentry id="RHEL">
353 <glossterm>RHEL</glossterm>
355 <primary>Linux</primary>
356 <secondary>RHEL</secondary>
359 <para>Also known as "Red Hat Enterprises
360 <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem>". An official
361 <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> distribution that is targeted
362 at the commercial market. It is the basis of other popular
363 <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> distributions, e.g.,
364 <systemitem class="osname">CentOS</systemitem>. More information is available
365 at <ulink url="http://www.redhat.com">http://www.redhat.com</ulink>.</para>
371 <glossentry id="SIP2">
372 <glossterm>SIP</glossterm>
374 <primary>SIP</primary>
377 <para>SIP, standing for Standard Interchange Protocol, was developed by the 3M
378 Corporation to be a common protocol for data transfer between ILS' and third party
382 <glossentry id="srfsh">
384 <primary>srfsh</primary>
386 <glossterm>srfsh</glossterm>
388 <para>A command language interpreter (shell) that executes commands read from the
389 standard input. It is used to test the Open Service Request Framework (OpenSRF).</para>
392 <glossentry id="SRU">
393 <glossterm>SRU</glossterm>
395 <primary>SRU</primary>
398 <para>SRU is a standard XML-focused search protocol for Internet search
399 queries, utilizing CQL (Contextual Query Language), a standard syntax for
400 representing queries.</para>
403 <glossentry id="ssh">
404 <glossterm>SSH</glossterm>
406 <primary>SSH</primary>
409 <para>An encrypted network protocol using public-key cryptography that allows
410 secure communications between systems on an insecure network. Typically used
411 to access shell accounts but also supports tunneling, forwarding TCP ports and
412 X11 connections, and transferring files.</para>
415 <glossentry id="sshproxy">
416 <glossterm>SSH proxy</glossterm>
418 <primary>SSH</primary>
419 <secondary>proxy</secondary>
422 <para>As used in Evergreen, a method of allowing one or more Staff Clients to
423 communicate with one or more Evergreen servers over an insecure network by
424 sending data through a secure SSH tunnel. It also buffers and caches all data
425 travelling to and from Staff Clients to speed up access to resources on
426 Evergreen servers.</para>
427 <glossseealso otherterm="ssh"/>
428 <glossseealso otherterm="tunneling"/>
429 <glossseealso otherterm="sshtunnel"/>
432 <glossentry id="sshtunnel">
433 <glossterm>SSH tunnel</glossterm>
435 <primary>SSH</primary>
436 <secondary>tunneling</secondary>
439 <para>An encrypted data channel existing over an SSH network connection. Used
440 to securely transfer unencrypted data streams over insecure networks.</para>
441 <glossseealso otherterm="ssh"/>
442 <glossseealso otherterm="tunneling"/>
445 <glossentry id="SSL Certificate">
446 <glossterm>SSL Certificate</glossterm>
448 <primary>SSL</primary>
451 <para>As used in Evergreen, it is a method of ensuring that Staff Clients are
452 able to connect to legitimate Evergreen servers.</para>
453 <para>In general, it is a special electronic document used to guarantee
454 authenticity of a digital message. Also known as a "public key", or "identity"
455 or "digital" certificate. It combines an identity (of a person or an
456 organization) and a unique public key to form a so-called digital signature,
457 and is used to verify that the public key does, in fact, belong with that
458 particular identity.</para>
464 <glossentry id="tunneling">
465 <glossterm>tunneling</glossterm>
467 <primary>tunneling</primary>
468 <seealso>SSH tunneling</seealso>
471 <para>As used in Evergreen, it is a method of allowing Staff Clients to securely
472 connect to legitimate Evergreen servers.</para>
473 <para>In general, it is a method of encapsulating data provided in one network
474 protocol (the "delivery"protocol), within data in a different network protocol
475 (the "tunneling" protocol). Used to provide a secure path and secure
476 communications through an insecure or incompatible network. Can be used to
477 bypass firewalls by communicating via a protocol the firewall normally blocks,
478 but "wrapped" inside a protocol that the firewall does not block.</para>
479 <glossseealso otherterm="sshtunnel"/>
485 <glossentry id="Ubuntu">
486 <glossterm>Ubuntu</glossterm>
488 <primary>Linux</primary>
489 <secondary>Ubuntu</secondary>
492 <para>A popular open-source operating system using the
493 <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> kernel that was originally based on the
494 <systemitem class="osname">Debian GNU/Linux</systemitem> operating system.
495 More information is available at
496 <ulink url="http://www.ubuntu.com">http://www.ubuntu.com</ulink>.</para>
497 <glossseealso otherterm="Debian"/>
503 <glossentry id="virtualization">
504 <glossterm>Virtualization</glossterm>
506 <primary>virtualization</primary>
509 <para>A method of executing software in a special environment that is partitioned or
510 separated from the real underlying hardware and software resources. In typical usage, it
511 allows a <emphasis>host</emphasis> operating system to encapsulate or emulate another
512 operating system environment in such a way that the emulated environment is completely
513 unaware of the hosting environment. For instance, it allows a
514 <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> application to execute within a
515 <systemitem class="osname">Windows</systemitem> environment.</para>
518 <glossentry id="virtualbox">
519 <glossterm>VirtualBox</glossterm>
521 <primary>virtualization software</primary>
522 <secondary>VirtualBox</secondary>
525 <para>A popular commercial package of virtualization software that emulates the x86
526 microprocessor architecture. It can be installed on
527 <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem>, <systemitem class="osname">Mac OS X</systemitem>,
528 <systemitem class="osname">Windows</systemitem> or
529 <systemitem class="osname">Solaris</systemitem> "host" operating systems and allows
530 other "guest" (typically including <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> and
531 <systemitem class="osname">Windows</systemitem>) operating systems to be loaded and executed.</para>
532 <glossseealso otherterm="virtualization"/>
535 <glossentry id="virtualpc">
536 <glossterm>Virtual PC</glossterm>
538 <primary>virtualization software</primary>
539 <secondary>Virtual PC</secondary>
542 <para>A popular commercial package of virtualization software that emulates the x86
543 microprocessor architecture. It is installed on a Windows "host" operating system and
544 allows other "guest" (typically including <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem>
545 and <systemitem class="osname">Windows</systemitem>) operating systems to be loaded and
547 <glossseealso otherterm="virtualization"/>
550 <glossentry id="Volume Buckets">
551 <glossterm>Volume Buckets</glossterm>
553 <primary>volume buckets</primary>
556 <para>Virtual <quote>containers</quote> to use in batch processing of multiple
557 volumes. They can be used to perform various cataloging/holdings maintenance
558 tasks in batch.</para>
561 <glossentry id="vmware">
562 <glossterm>VMware</glossterm>
564 <primary>virtualization software</primary>
565 <secondary>VMware</secondary>
568 <para>A popular commercial package of virtualization software that emulates the x86
569 microprocessor architecture. It can be installed on
570 <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem>,
571 <systemitem class="osname">Mac OS X</systemitem>,
572 <systemitem class="osname">Windows</systemitem> or
573 <systemitem class="osname">Solaris</systemitem> "host" operating systems and
574 allows other "guest" (typically including
575 <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> and
576 <systemitem class="osname">Windows</systemitem>) operating systems to be
577 loaded and executed.</para>
578 <glossseealso otherterm="virtualization"/>
584 <glossentry id="wine">
585 <glossterm>Wine</glossterm>
587 <primary>Linux</primary>
588 <secondary>Wine</secondary>
591 <para>A popular open-source application that allows
592 <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> and
593 <systemitem class="osname">Unix</systemitem>
594 systems to run <systemitem class="osname">Windows</systemitem> executables.
595 More information is available at
596 <ulink url="http://www.winehq.org/">http://www.winehq.org/</ulink>.</para>
602 <glossentry id="xml">
603 <glossterm>XML</glossterm>
605 <primary>XML</primary>
608 <para>The eXtensible Markup Language, a subset of SGML; a set of rules for
609 encoding information in a way that is both human- and machine-readable. It is
610 primarily used to define documents but can also be used to define arbitrary
611 data structures. It was originally defined by the World Wide Web Consortium
615 <glossentry id="XMPP">
616 <glossterm>XMPP</glossterm>
618 <primary>XMPP</primary>
619 <seealso>jabber</seealso>
622 <para>An open-standard communications protocol, based on XML, used in
623 message-oriented middleware. It supports the concept of a consistent
624 <emphasis>domain</emphasis> of message types that flow between software
625 applications, possibly on different operating systems and architectures.
626 More information is available at
627 <ulink url="http://xmpp.org">http://xmpp.org</ulink>.</para>
628 <glossseealso otherterm="Jabber"/>
631 <glossentry id="xpath">
632 <glossterm>xpath</glossterm>
634 <primary>xpath</primary>
637 <para>The XML Path Language, a query language based on a tree representation
638 of an XML document. It is used to programmatically select nodes from an XML
639 document and to do minor computation involving strings, numbers and Boolean
640 values. It allows you to identify parts of the XML document tree, to navigate
641 around the tree, and to uniquely select nodes. The currently version is "XPath
642 2.0". It was originally defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).</para>
645 <glossentry id="xul">
646 <glossterm>XUL</glossterm>
648 <primary>xUL</primary>
651 <para>The XML User Interface Language, a specialized interface language that allows
652 building cross-platform applications that drive <application>Mozilla</application>
653 -based browsers such as <application>Firefox</application>. More information is
655 <ulink url="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL">
656 https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL</ulink>.</para>
659 <glossentry id="xulrunner">
660 <glossterm>xulrunner</glossterm>
662 <primary>XULRunner</primary>
665 <para>A specialized run-time application environment that provides support for
666 installing, upgrading and uninstalling <application>XUL</application>
667 applications. It operates with <application>Mozilla</application>-based
668 applications such as the <application>Firefox</application> browser.
669 More information is available at
670 <ulink url="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XULRunner">
671 https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XULRunner</ulink>.</para>
672 <glossseealso otherterm="xul"/>
678 <glossentry id="YAZ">
679 <glossterm>YAZ</glossterm>
681 <primary>yaz</primary>
684 <para>A programmers’ toolkit supporting the development of Z39.50/SRW/SRU
685 clients and servers.</para>
688 <glossentry id="yaz-client">
690 <primary>yaz</primary>
692 <glossterm>yaz-client</glossterm>
694 <para>Z39.50/SRU client for connecting to YAZ servers.
695 More information is available at
696 <ulink url="http://www.indexdata.com/yaz">http://www.indexdata.com/yaz</ulink></para>
702 <glossentry id="Z39.50">
703 <glossterm>Z39.50</glossterm>
705 <primary>Z39.50</primary>
708 <para>A client–server protocol for searching and retrieving information from
709 remote computer databases.</para>