Re: anyone want to package SCOOBS? (GPL'ed XML Search Engine)

[Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>]

eichin@thok.org (Mark W. Eichin) writes:

> SCOOBS is an XML-smart search engine that was recently GPL'ed; I'm not
> sure I'll have time to build it, but if it gets packaged I'll
> certainly use it :-)
> 
> http://www.scoobs.com/about.html
> 
>      * [June 25, 1999]   SCOOBS XML Search Engine Now Open Source.
>        Troy D. Milner (Monash University) posted an announcement to the
>        effect that the SCOOBS XML Search Engine is now open source, viz.,
>        governed by the GNU Public License. SCOOBS (Search and
>        Classification Of Object Based information Sources) is a 'Context
>        Based Search Engine' that "allows for the context to be derived
>        from an XML document. This means that we can now search for
>        documents that exhibit a certain context. We can search for 'plum
>        pudding', that has a context only of a 'recipe', and SCOOBS will
>        return 'plum pudding recipes', and not 'plum pudding' from
>        restaurant menus and the like. SCOOBS also returns XPointers to
>        exact locations in XML documents, and allows users to locate
>        sub-documents of documents. Now you can travel from a search
>        result straight to the position in a document where that search
>        information is located. SCOOBS offers a very unique merged XML
>        output, where you can request that it gathers all the XML
>        documents of your results and merge them together, removing all
>        the irrelevant information in the original document." For other
>        information, see the SCOOBS Web site.

That looks really interesting.  I'll take a stab at it this weekend.  :-)

Cheers,

 - Jim