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   3         <title>Glossary</title>
   4         <abstract>
   5                 <para>In this section we expand acronyms, define terms, and generally try
   6                 to explain concepts used by Evergreen software.</para>
   7         </abstract>
   8         <glossdiv>
   9                 <title>A</title>
  10                 <glossentry id="Apache">
  11                         <glossterm>Apache</glossterm>
  12                         <indexterm>
  13                                 <primary>Apache</primary>
  14                         </indexterm>
  15                         <glossdef>
  16                                 <para>Open-source web server software used to serve both static
  17                                 content and dynamic web pages in a secure and reliable way. More
  18                                 information is available at
  19                                 <ulink url="http://apache.org">http://apache.org</ulink>.</para>
  20                         </glossdef>
  21                 </glossentry>
  22         </glossdiv>
  23         <glossdiv>
  24                 <title>B</title>
  25                 <glossentry id="Book Bags">
  26                         <glossterm>Bookbags</glossterm>
  27                         <indexterm>
  28                                 <primary>bookbags</primary>
  29                         </indexterm>
  30                         <glossdef>
  31                                 <para>Bookbags are lists of items that can be used for any number of
  32                                 purposes. For example, to keep track of what books you have read,
  33                                 books you would like to read, to maintain a class reading list, to
  34                                 maintain a reading list for a book club, to keep a list of books you
  35                                 would like for your birthday. There are an unlimited number of
  36                                 uses.</para>
  37                         </glossdef>
  38                 </glossentry>
  39         </glossdiv>
  40         <glossdiv>
  41                 <title>C</title>
  42                 <glossentry id="CentOS">
  43                         <glossterm>CentOS</glossterm>
  44                         <indexterm>
  45                                 <primary>Linux</primary>
  46                                 <secondary>CentOS</secondary>
  47                         </indexterm>
  48                         <glossdef>
  49                                 <para>A popular open-source operating system based on Red Hat
  50                                 Enterprises <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem>
  51                                 (a.k.a. "RHEL") and often used for in web servers. More
  52                                 information is available at
  53                                 <ulink url="http://www.centos.org">http://www.centos.org</ulink>.</para>
  54                         </glossdef>
  55                 </glossentry>
  56                 <glossentry id="closure">
  57                         <glossterm>Closure Compiler</glossterm>
  58                         <glossdef>
  59                                 <para>A suite of open-source tools used to build web applications with
  60                                 <application>Javascript</application>; originally developed by Google.
  61                                 It is used to create special builds of the Evergreen Staff Client.
  62                                 More information is available at
  63                                 <ulink url="http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/">
  64                                 http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/</ulink>.</para>
  65                         </glossdef>
  66                 </glossentry>
  67                 <glossentry id="CPAN">
  68                         <glossterm>CPAN</glossterm>
  69                         <indexterm>
  70                                 <primary>Perl</primary>
  71                                 <secondary>CPAN</secondary>
  72                         </indexterm>
  73                         <glossdef>
  74                                 <para>An open-source archive of software modules written in
  75                                 <application>Perl</application>. More information is available at
  76                                 <ulink url="http://www.cpan.org">http://www.cpan.org</ulink>.</para>
  77                                 <glossseealso otherterm="Perl"/>
  78                         </glossdef>
  79                 </glossentry>
  80         </glossdiv>
  81         <glossdiv>
  82                 <title>D</title>
  83                 <glossentry id="Debian">
  84                         <glossterm>Debian</glossterm>
  85                         <indexterm>
  86                                 <primary>Linux</primary>
  87                                 <secondary>Debian</secondary>
  88                         </indexterm>
  89                         <glossdef>
  90                                 <para>One of the most popular open-source operating system using the
  91                                 <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> kernel that provides
  92                                 over 25000 useful precompiled software packages. Also known as
  93                                 <systemitem class="osname">Debian GNU/Linux</systemitem>. More
  94                                 information is available at
  95                                 <ulink url="http://www.debian.org">http://www.debian.org</ulink>.</para>
  96                         </glossdef>
  97                 </glossentry>
  98                 <glossentry>
  99                         <glossterm>Domain name</glossterm>
 100                         <indexterm>
 101                                 <primary>domain name</primary>
 102                         </indexterm>
 103                         <glossdef>
 104                                 <para>A unique set of case-insensitive, alphanumeric strings
 105                                 separated by periods that are used to name organizations, web sites
 106                                 and addresses on the Internet (e.g.:
 107                                 <uri>www.esilibrary.com</uri>). Domain names can be reserved via
 108                                 third-party registration services, and can be associated with a
 109                                 unique IP address or suite of IP addresses.</para>
 110                                 <glossseealso otherterm="ipaddress"/>
 111                         </glossdef>
 112                 </glossentry>
 113         </glossdiv>
 114         <glossdiv>
 115                 <title>E</title>
 116                 <glossentry id="ejabberd">
 117                         <glossterm>ejabberd</glossterm>
 118                         <indexterm>
 119                                 <primary>ejabberd</primary>
 120                         </indexterm>
 121                         <glossdef>
 122                                 <para>An open-source Jabber/XMPP instant messaging server that is
 123                                 used for client-server message passing within Evergreen. It runs
 124                                 under popular operating systems (e.g.,
 125                                 <systemitem class="osname">Mac OSX</systemitem>,
 126                                 <systemitem class="osname">GNU/Linux</systemitem>, and
 127                                 <systemitem class="osname">Microsoft Windows</systemitem>). One
 128                                 popular use is to provide <application>XMPP</application> messaging
 129                                 services for a <application>Jabber</application> domain across an
 130                                 extendable cluster of cheap, easily-replaced machine nodes. More
 131                                 information is available at
 132                                 <ulink url="http://www.ejabberd.im/">http://www.ejabberd.im</ulink>.</para>
 133                                 <glossseealso otherterm="Jabber"/>
 134                                 <glossseealso otherterm="XMPP"/>
 135                         </glossdef>
 136                 </glossentry>
 137         </glossdiv>
 138         <glossdiv>
 139                 <title>F</title>
 140                 <glossentry></glossentry>
 141         </glossdiv>
 142         <glossdiv>
 143                 <title>G</title>
 144                 <glossentry id="Gentoo">
 145                         <glossterm>Gentoo</glossterm>
 146                         <indexterm>
 147                                 <primary>Linux</primary>
 148                                 <secondary>Gentoo</secondary>
 149                         </indexterm>
 150                         <glossdef>
 151                                 <para>A popular open-source operating system built on the
 152                                 <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> kernel. More
 153                                 information is available at
 154                                 <ulink url="http://www.gentoo.org">http://www.gentoo.org</ulink>.</para>
 155                         </glossdef>
 156                 </glossentry>
 157         </glossdiv>
 158         <glossdiv>
 159                 <title>H</title>
 160                 <glossentry></glossentry>
 161         </glossdiv>
 162         <glossdiv>
 163                 <title>I</title>
 164                 <glossentry id="ipaddress">
 165                         <glossterm>IP Address</glossterm>
 166                         <indexterm>
 167                                 <primary>IP Address</primary>
 168                         </indexterm>
 169                         <glossdef>
 170                                 <para>(Internet Protocol address) A numerical label consisting of
 171                                 four numbers separated by periods (e.g., "192.168.1.15") assigned to
 172                                 individual members of networked computing systems. It uniquely
 173                                 identifies each system on the network and allows controlled
 174                                 communication between such systems. The numerical label scheme must
 175                                 adhere to a strictly defined naming convention that is currently
 176                                 defined and overseen by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names
 177                                 and Numbers ("ICANN").</para>
 178                         </glossdef>
 179                 </glossentry>
 180                 <glossentry id="Item Buckets">
 181                         <glossterm>Item/copy Buckets</glossterm>
 182                         <indexterm>
 183                                 <primary>copy buckets</primary>
 184                                 <seealso>item buckets</seealso>
 185                         </indexterm>
 186                         <indexterm>
 187                                 <primary>item buckets</primary>
 188                                 <seealso>copy buckets</seealso>
 189                         </indexterm>
 190                         <glossdef>
 191                                 <para>Virtual <quote>containers</quote> to use in batch processing
 192                                 of item or copy records. They can be used to perform various
 193                                 cataloging/holdings maintenance tasks in batch.</para>
 194                         </glossdef>
 195                 </glossentry>
 196         </glossdiv>
 197         <glossdiv>
 198                 <title>J</title>
 199                 <glossentry id="Jabber">
 200                         <glossterm>Jabber</glossterm>
 201                         <indexterm>
 202                                 <primary>jabber</primary>
 203                                 <seealso>XMPP</seealso>
 204                         </indexterm>
 205                         <glossdef>
 206                                 <para>The communications protocol used for client-server message
 207                                 passing within Evergreen. Now known as XMPP (eXtensible Messaging and
 208                                 Presence Protocol), it was originally named "Jabber".</para>
 209                                 <glossseealso otherterm="XMPP"/>
 210                                 <glossseealso otherterm="ejabberd"/>
 211                         </glossdef>
 212                 </glossentry>
 213         </glossdiv>
 214         <glossdiv>
 215                 <title>K</title>
 216                 <glossentry></glossentry>
 217         </glossdiv>
 218         <glossdiv>
 219                 <title>L</title>
 220                 <glossentry></glossentry>
 221         </glossdiv>
 222         <glossdiv>
 223                 <title>M</title>
 224                 <glossentry id="MARC">
 225                         <glossterm>MARC</glossterm>
 226                         <indexterm>
 227                                 <primary>MARC</primary>
 228                         </indexterm>
 229                         <glossdef>
 230                                 <para>The MARC formats are standards for the representation and
 231                                 communication of bibliographic and related information in
 232                                 machine-readable form.</para>
 233                         </glossdef>
 234                 </glossentry>
 235                 <glossentry id="MARCXML">
 236                         <glossterm>MARCXML</glossterm>
 237                         <indexterm>
 238                                 <primary>MARCXML</primary>
 239                         </indexterm>
 240                         <glossdef>
 241                                 <para>Framework for working with MARC data in a XML environment.</para>
 242                         </glossdef>
 243                 </glossentry>
 244                 <glossentry id="McCoy">
 245                         <glossterm>McCoy</glossterm>
 246                         <glossdef>
 247                                 <para>An open-source application that allows add-on authors to
 248                                 provide secure updates to their users. It is used to create special
 249                                 builds of the Evergreen Staff Client. More information is available
 250                                 at <ulink url="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/McCoy">
 251                                 http://developer.mozilla.org/en/McCoy</ulink>.</para>
 252                         </glossdef>
 253                 </glossentry>
 254                 <glossentry id="memcached">
 255                         <glossterm>memcached</glossterm>
 256                         <indexterm>
 257                                 <primary>memcached</primary>
 258                         </indexterm>
 259                         <glossdef>
 260                                 <para>A general-purpose distributed memory caching system, usually
 261                                 with a client-server architecture spread over multiple computing
 262                                 systems. It reduces the number of times a data source (e.g., a
 263                                 database) must be directly accessed by temporarily caching data in
 264                                 memory, therefore dramatically speeding up database-driven web
 265                                 applications.</para>
 266                         </glossdef>
 267                 </glossentry>
 268         </glossdiv>
 269         <glossdiv>
 270                 <title>N</title>
 271                 <glossentry id="netaddr">
 272                         <glossterm>Network address</glossterm>
 273                         <indexterm>
 274                                 <primary>network address</primary>
 275                                 <seealso>ip address</seealso>
 276                         </indexterm>
 277                         <glossdef>
 278                                 <para>Also known as an IP address (Internet Protocol address).</para>
 279                                 <glossseealso otherterm="ipaddress"/>
 280                         </glossdef>
 281                 </glossentry>
 282                 <glossentry id="nsis">
 283                         <glossterm>nsis</glossterm>
 284                         <glossdef>
 285                                 <para>An open-source software tool used to create Windows
 286                                 installers. It is used to create special builds of the Evergreen
 287                                 Staff Client. More information is available at
 288                                 <ulink url="http://nsis.sourceforge.net">
 289                                 http://nsis.sourceforge.net</ulink>.</para>
 290                         </glossdef>
 291                 </glossentry>
 292         </glossdiv>
 293         <glossdiv>
 294                 <title>O</title>
 295                 <glossentry id="OPAC">
 296                         <glossterm>OPAC</glossterm>
 297                         <indexterm>
 298                                 <primary>OPAC</primary>
 299                         </indexterm>
 300                         <glossdef>
 301                                 <para>The "Online Public Access Catalog"; an online database of a
 302                                 library's holdings; used to find resources in their collections;
 303                                 possibly searchable by keyword, title, author, subject or call
 304                                 number.</para>
 305                         </glossdef>
 306                 </glossentry>
 307                 <glossentry id="OpenSRF">
 308                         <glossterm>OpenSRF</glossterm>
 309                         <indexterm>
 310                                 <primary>OpenSRF</primary>
 311                         </indexterm>
 312                         <glossdef>
 313                                 <para>The "Open Scalable Request Framework" (pronounced 'open surf')
 314                                 is a stateful, decentralized service architecture that allows
 315                                 developers to create applications for Evergreen with a minimum of
 316                                 knowledge of its structure.</para>
 317                         </glossdef>
 318                 </glossentry>
 319         </glossdiv>
 320         <glossdiv>
 321                 <title>P</title>
 322                 <glossentry id="Perl">
 323                         <glossterm>Perl</glossterm>
 324                         <indexterm>
 325                                 <primary>Perl</primary>
 326                         </indexterm>
 327                         <glossdef>
 328                                 <para>The high-level scripting language in which most of the business logic of Evergreen is written.</para>
 329                                 <glossseealso otherterm="CPAN"/>
 330                         </glossdef>
 331                 </glossentry>
 332                 <glossentry id="PKI">
 333                         <glossterm>PKI</glossterm>
 334                         <indexterm>
 335                                 <primary>PKI</primary>
 336                         </indexterm>
 337                         <glossdef>
 338                                 <para>Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) describes the schemes needed
 339                                 to generate and maintain digital SSL Certificates.</para>
 340                                 <glossseealso otherterm="SSL Certificate"/>
 341                         </glossdef>
 342                 </glossentry>
 343                 <glossentry id="PostgreSQL">
 344                         <glossterm>PostgreSQL</glossterm>
 345                         <indexterm>
 346                                 <primary>databases</primary>
 347                                 <secondary>PostgreSQL</secondary>
 348                         </indexterm>
 349                         <glossdef>
 350                                 <para>A popular open-source object-relational database management
 351                                 system that underpins Evergreen software.</para>
 352                         </glossdef>
 353                 </glossentry>
 354                 <glossentry id="putty">
 355                         <glossterm>PuTTY</glossterm>
 356                         <indexterm>
 357                                 <primary>SSH</primary>
 358                                 <secondary>Putty</secondary>
 359                         </indexterm>
 360                         <glossdef>
 361                                 <para>A popular open-source telnet/ssh client for the Windows and
 362                                 Unix platforms. As used in Evergreen, a handy utility used to create
 363                                 an SSH Tunnel for connecting Staff Clients to Evergreen servers over
 364                                 insecure networks. More information is available at
 365                                 <ulink url="http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/">
 366                                 http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/</ulink>.</para>
 367                                 <glossseealso otherterm="sshtunnel"/>
 368                         </glossdef>
 369                 </glossentry>
 370         </glossdiv>
 371         <glossdiv>
 372                 <title>Q</title>
 373                 <glossentry></glossentry>
 374         </glossdiv>
 375         <glossdiv>
 376                 <title>R</title>
 377                 <glossentry id="Resource Hacker">
 378                         <glossterm>Resource Hacker</glossterm>
 379                         <glossdef>
 380                                 <para>An open-source utility used to view, modify, rename, add,
 381                                 delete and extract resources in 32bit Windows executables. It is
 382                                 used to create special builds of the Evergreen Staff Client. More
 383                                 information is available at
 384                                 <ulink url="http://www.angusj.com/resourcehacker/">
 385                                 Resource Hacker</ulink></para>
 386                         </glossdef>
 387                 </glossentry>
 388                 <glossentry id="RHEL">
 389                         <glossterm>RHEL</glossterm>
 390                         <indexterm>
 391                                 <primary>Linux</primary>
 392                                 <secondary>RHEL</secondary>
 393                         </indexterm>
 394                         <glossdef>
 395                                 <para>Also known as "Red Hat Enterprises
 396                                 <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem>". An official
 397                                 <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> distribution that is
 398                                 targeted at the commercial market. It is the basis of other popular
 399                                 <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> distributions, e.g.,
 400                                 <systemitem class="osname">CentOS</systemitem>. More information is
 401                                 available at
 402                                 <ulink url="http://www.redhat.com">http://www.redhat.com</ulink>.</para>
 403                         </glossdef>
 404                 </glossentry>
 405         </glossdiv>
 406         <glossdiv>
 407                 <title>S</title>
 408                 <glossentry id="SIP2">
 409                         <glossterm>SIP</glossterm>
 410                         <indexterm>
 411                                 <primary>SIP</primary>
 412                         </indexterm>
 413                         <glossdef>
 414                                 <para>SIP (Standard Interchange Protocol) is a communications
 415                                 protocol used within Evergreen to transfer data to and from other
 416                                 third party devices, such as RFID and barcode scanners that handle
 417                                 patron and library material information. Version 2.0 (also known as
 418                                 "SIP2") is the current standard. It was originally developed by the
 419                                 3M Corporation.</para>
 420                         </glossdef>
 421                 </glossentry>
 422                 <glossentry id="srfsh">
 423                         <indexterm>
 424                                 <primary>srfsh</primary>
 425                         </indexterm>
 426                         <glossterm>srfsh</glossterm>
 427                         <glossdef>
 428                                 <para>A command language interpreter (shell) that executes commands
 429                                 read from the standard input. It is used to test the Open Service
 430                                 Request Framework (OpenSRF).</para>
 431                         </glossdef>
 432                 </glossentry>
 433                 <glossentry id="SRU">
 434                         <glossterm>SRU</glossterm>
 435                         <indexterm>
 436                                 <primary>SRU</primary>
 437                         </indexterm>
 438                         <glossdef>
 439                                 <para>SRU is a standard XML-focused search protocol for Internet
 440                                 search queries, utilizing CQL (Contextual Query Language), a
 441                                 standard syntax for representing queries.</para>
 442                         </glossdef>
 443                 </glossentry>
 444                 <glossentry id="ssh">
 445                         <glossterm>SSH</glossterm>
 446                         <indexterm>
 447                                 <primary>SSH</primary>
 448                         </indexterm>
 449                         <glossdef>
 450                                 <para>An encrypted network protocol using public-key cryptography
 451                                 that allows secure communications between systems on an insecure
 452                                 network. Typically used to access shell accounts but also supports
 453                                 tunneling, forwarding TCP ports and X11 connections, and
 454                                 transferring files.</para>
 455                         </glossdef>
 456                 </glossentry>
 457                 <glossentry id="sshproxy">
 458                         <glossterm>SSH proxy</glossterm>
 459                         <indexterm>
 460                                 <primary>SSH</primary>
 461                                 <secondary>proxy</secondary>
 462                         </indexterm>
 463                         <glossdef>
 464                                 <para>As used in Evergreen, a method of allowing one or more Staff
 465                                 Clients to communicate with one or more Evergreen servers over an
 466                                 insecure network by sending data through a secure SSH tunnel. It
 467                                 also buffers and caches all data travelling to and from Staff
 468                                 Clients to speed up access to resources on Evergreen servers.</para>
 469                                 <glossseealso otherterm="ssh"/>
 470                                 <glossseealso otherterm="tunneling"/>
 471                                 <glossseealso otherterm="sshtunnel"/>
 472                         </glossdef>
 473                 </glossentry>
 474                 <glossentry id="sshtunnel">
 475                         <glossterm>SSH tunnel</glossterm>
 476                         <indexterm>
 477                                 <primary>SSH</primary>
 478                                 <secondary>tunneling</secondary>
 479                         </indexterm>
 480                         <glossdef>
 481                                 <para>An encrypted data channel existing over an SSH network
 482                                 connection. Used to securely transfer unencrypted data streams over
 483                                 insecure networks.</para>
 484                                 <glossseealso otherterm="ssh"/>
 485                                 <glossseealso otherterm="tunneling"/>
 486                         </glossdef>
 487                 </glossentry>
 488                 <glossentry id="SSL Certificate">
 489                         <glossterm>SSL Certificate</glossterm>
 490                         <indexterm>
 491                                 <primary>SSL</primary>
 492                         </indexterm>
 493                         <glossdef>
 494                                 <para>As used in Evergreen, it is a method of ensuring that Staff
 495                                 Clients are able to connect to legitimate Evergreen servers.</para>
 496                                 <para>In general, it is a special electronic document used to
 497                                 guarantee authenticity of a digital message. Also known as a "public
 498                                 key", or "identity" or "digital" certificate. It combines an
 499                                 identity (of a person or an organization) and a unique public key to
 500                                 form a so-called digital signature, and is used to verify that the
 501                                 public key does, in fact, belong with that particular
 502                                 identity.</para>
 503                                 <glossseealso otherterm="PKI"/>
 504                         </glossdef>
 505                 </glossentry>
 506         </glossdiv>
 507         <glossdiv>
 508                 <title>T</title>
 509                 <glossentry id="tunneling">
 510                         <glossterm>tunneling</glossterm>
 511                         <indexterm>
 512                                 <primary>tunneling</primary>
 513                                 <seealso>SSH tunneling</seealso>
 514                         </indexterm>
 515                         <glossdef>
 516                                 <para>As used in Evergreen, it is a method of allowing Staff Clients
 517                                 to securely connect to legitimate Evergreen servers.</para>
 518                                 <para>In general, it is a method of encapsulating data provided in
 519                                 one network protocol (the "delivery"protocol), within data in a
 520                                 different network protocol (the "tunneling" protocol). Used to
 521                                 provide a secure path and secure communications through an insecure
 522                                 or incompatible network. Can be used to bypass firewalls by
 523                                 communicating via a protocol the firewall normally blocks, but
 524                                 "wrapped" inside a protocol that the firewall does not block.</para>
 525                                 <glossseealso otherterm="sshtunnel"/>
 526                         </glossdef>
 527                 </glossentry>
 528         </glossdiv>
 529         <glossdiv>
 530                 <title>U</title>
 531                 <glossentry id="Ubuntu">
 532                         <glossterm>Ubuntu</glossterm>
 533                         <indexterm>
 534                                 <primary>Linux</primary>
 535                                 <secondary>Ubuntu</secondary>
 536                         </indexterm>
 537                         <glossdef>
 538                                 <para>A popular open-source operating system using the
 539                                 <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> kernel that was
 540                                 originally based on the
 541                                 <systemitem class="osname">Debian GNU/Linux</systemitem>
 542                                 operating system. More information is available at
 543                                 <ulink url="http://www.ubuntu.com">http://www.ubuntu.com</ulink>.</para>
 544                                 <glossseealso otherterm="Debian"/>
 545                         </glossdef>
 546                 </glossentry>
 547         </glossdiv>
 548         <glossdiv>
 549                 <title>V</title>
 550                 <glossentry id="virtualization">
 551                         <glossterm>Virtualization</glossterm>
 552                         <indexterm>
 553                                 <primary>virtualization</primary>
 554                         </indexterm>
 555                         <glossdef>
 556                                 <para>A method of executing software in a special environment that
 557                                 is partitioned or separated from the real underlying hardware and
 558                                 software resources. In typical usage, it allows a
 559                                 <emphasis>host</emphasis> operating system to encapsulate or emulate
 560                                 another operating system environment in such a way that the emulated
 561                                 environment is completely unaware of the hosting environment. For
 562                                 instance, it allows a <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem>
 563                                 application to execute within a
 564                                 <systemitem class="osname">Windows</systemitem> environment.</para>
 565                         </glossdef>
 566                 </glossentry>
 567                 <glossentry id="virtualbox">
 568                         <glossterm>VirtualBox</glossterm>
 569                         <indexterm>
 570                                 <primary>virtualization software</primary>
 571                                 <secondary>VirtualBox</secondary>
 572                         </indexterm>
 573                         <glossdef>
 574                                 <para>A popular commercial package of virtualization software that
 575                                 emulates the x86 microprocessor architecture. It can be installed on
 576                                 <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem>,
 577                                 <systemitem class="osname">Mac OS X</systemitem>,
 578                                 <systemitem class="osname">Windows</systemitem> or
 579                                 <systemitem class="osname">Solaris</systemitem> "host" operating
 580                                 systems and allows other "guest" (typically including
 581                                 <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> and
 582                                 <systemitem class="osname">Windows</systemitem>) operating systems
 583                                 to be loaded and executed.</para>
 584                                 <glossseealso otherterm="virtualization"/>
 585                         </glossdef>
 586                 </glossentry>
 587                 <glossentry id="virtualpc">
 588                         <glossterm>Virtual PC</glossterm>
 589                         <indexterm>
 590                                 <primary>virtualization software</primary>
 591                                 <secondary>Virtual PC</secondary>
 592                         </indexterm>
 593                         <glossdef>
 594                                 <para>A popular commercial package of virtualization software that
 595                                 emulates the x86 microprocessor architecture. It is installed on a
 596                                 Windows "host" operating system and allows other "guest" (typically
 597                                 including <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> and
 598                                 <systemitem class="osname">Windows</systemitem>) operating systems
 599                                 to be loaded and executed.</para>
 600                                 <glossseealso otherterm="virtualization"/>
 601                         </glossdef>
 602                 </glossentry>
 603                 <glossentry id="Volume Buckets">
 604                         <glossterm>Volume Buckets</glossterm>
 605                         <indexterm>
 606                                 <primary>volume buckets</primary>
 607                         </indexterm>
 608                         <glossdef>
 609                                 <para>Virtual <quote>containers</quote> to use in batch processing
 610                                 of multiple volumes. They can be used to perform various
 611                                 cataloging/holdings maintenance tasks in batch.</para>
 612                         </glossdef>
 613                 </glossentry>
 614                 <glossentry id="vmware">
 615                         <glossterm>VMware</glossterm>
 616                         <indexterm>
 617                                 <primary>virtualization software</primary>
 618                                 <secondary>VMware</secondary>
 619                         </indexterm>
 620                         <glossdef>
 621                                 <para>A popular commercial package of virtualization software that
 622                                 emulates the x86 microprocessor architecture. It can be installed on
 623                                 <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem>,
 624                                 <systemitem class="osname">Mac OS X</systemitem>,
 625                                 <systemitem class="osname">Windows</systemitem> or
 626                                 <systemitem class="osname">Solaris</systemitem> "host" operating systems
 627                                 and allows other "guest" (typically including
 628                                 <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> and
 629                                 <systemitem class="osname">Windows</systemitem>) operating systems
 630                                 to be loaded and executed.</para>
 631                                 <glossseealso otherterm="virtualization"/>
 632                         </glossdef>
 633                 </glossentry>
 634         </glossdiv>
 635         <glossdiv>
 636                 <title>W</title>
 637                 <glossentry id="wine">
 638                         <glossterm>Wine</glossterm>
 639                         <indexterm>
 640                                 <primary>Linux</primary>
 641                                 <secondary>Wine</secondary>
 642                         </indexterm>
 643                         <glossdef>
 644                                 <para>A popular open-source application that allows
 645                                 <systemitem class="osname">Linux</systemitem> and
 646                                 <systemitem class="osname">Unix</systemitem>
 647                                 systems to run <systemitem class="osname">Windows</systemitem>
 648                                 executables. More information is available at
 649                                 <ulink url="http://www.winehq.org/">http://www.winehq.org/</ulink>.</para>
 650                         </glossdef>
 651                 </glossentry>
 652         </glossdiv>
 653         <glossdiv>
 654                 <title>X</title>
 655                 <glossentry id="xml">
 656                         <glossterm>XML</glossterm>
 657                         <indexterm>
 658                                 <primary>XML</primary>
 659                         </indexterm>
 660                         <glossdef>
 661                                 <para>The eXtensible Markup Language, a subset of SGML; a set of
 662                                 rules for encoding information in a way that is both human- and
 663                                 machine-readable. It is primarily used to define documents but can
 664                                 also be used to define arbitrary data structures. It was originally
 665                                 defined by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).</para>
 666                         </glossdef>
 667                 </glossentry>
 668                 <glossentry id="XMPP">
 669                         <glossterm>XMPP</glossterm>
 670                         <indexterm>
 671                                 <primary>XMPP</primary>
 672                                 <seealso>jabber</seealso>
 673                         </indexterm>
 674                         <glossdef>
 675                                 <para>The open-standard communications protocol (based on XML) used
 676                                 for client-server message passing within Evergreen. It supports the
 677                                 concept of a consistent <emphasis>domain</emphasis> of message types
 678                                 that flow between software applications, possibly on different
 679                                 operating systems and architectures. More information is available
 680                                 at <ulink url="http://xmpp.org">http://xmpp.org</ulink>.</para>
 681                                 <glossseealso otherterm="Jabber"/>
 682                                 <glossseealso otherterm="ejabberd"/>
 683                         </glossdef>
 684                 </glossentry>
 685                 <glossentry id="xpath">
 686                         <glossterm>xpath</glossterm>
 687                         <indexterm>
 688                                 <primary>xpath</primary>
 689                         </indexterm>
 690                         <glossdef>
 691                                 <para>The XML Path Language, a query language based on a tree
 692                                 representation of an XML document. It is used to programmatically
 693                                 select nodes from an XML document and to do minor computation
 694                                 involving strings, numbers and Boolean values. It allows you to
 695                                 identify parts of the XML document tree, to navigate around the
 696                                 tree, and to uniquely select nodes. The currently version is "XPath
 697                                 2.0". It was originally defined by the World Wide Web Consortium
 698                                 (W3C).</para>
 699                         </glossdef>
 700                 </glossentry>
 701                 <glossentry id="xul">
 702                         <glossterm>XUL</glossterm>
 703                         <indexterm>
 704                                 <primary>xUL</primary>
 705                         </indexterm>
 706                         <glossdef>
 707                                 <para>The XML User Interface Language, a specialized interface
 708                                 language that allows building cross-platform applications that drive
 709                                 <application>Mozilla</application>-based browsers such as
 710                                 <application>Firefox</application>. More information is available at
 711                                 <ulink url="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL">
 712                                 https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XUL</ulink>.</para>
 713                         </glossdef>
 714                 </glossentry>
 715                 <glossentry id="xulrunner">
 716                         <glossterm>xulrunner</glossterm>
 717                         <indexterm>
 718                                 <primary>XULRunner</primary>
 719                         </indexterm>
 720                         <glossdef>
 721                                 <para>A specialized run-time application environment that provides
 722                                 support for installing, upgrading and uninstalling
 723                                 <application>XUL</application> applications. It operates with
 724                                 <application>Mozilla</application>-based applications such as the
 725                                 <application>Firefox</application> browser. More information is
 726                                 available at
 727                                 <ulink url="https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XULRunner">
 728                                 https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XULRunner</ulink>.</para>
 729                                 <glossseealso otherterm="xul"/>
 730                         </glossdef>
 731                 </glossentry>
 732         </glossdiv>
 733         <glossdiv>
 734                 <title>Y</title>
 735                 <glossentry id="YAZ">
 736                         <glossterm>YAZ</glossterm>
 737                         <indexterm>
 738                                 <primary>yaz</primary>
 739                         </indexterm>
 740                         <glossdef>
 741                                 <para>A programmers’ toolkit supporting the development of
 742                                 Z39.50/SRW/SRU clients and servers.</para>
 743                         </glossdef>
 744                 </glossentry>
 745                 <glossentry id="yaz-client">
 746                         <indexterm>
 747                                 <primary>yaz</primary>
 748                         </indexterm>
 749                         <glossterm>yaz-client</glossterm>
 750                         <glossdef>
 751                                 <para>Z39.50/SRU client for connecting to YAZ servers.
 752                                 More information is available at
 753                                 <ulink url="http://www.indexdata.com/yaz">
 754                                 http://www.indexdata.com/yaz</ulink></para>
 755                         </glossdef>
 756                 </glossentry>
 757         </glossdiv>
 758         <glossdiv>
 759                 <title>Z</title>
 760                 <glossentry id="Z39.50">
 761                         <glossterm>Z39.50</glossterm>
 762                         <indexterm>
 763                                 <primary>Z39.50</primary>
 764                         </indexterm>
 765                         <glossdef>
 766                                 <para>A client–server protocol for searching and retrieving
 767                                 information from remote computer databases.</para>
 768                         </glossdef>
 769                 </glossentry>
 770         </glossdiv>
 771 </glossary>