1SCROLLKEEPER(7)        Miscellaneous Information Manual        SCROLLKEEPER(7)
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NAME

6       ScrollKeeper - An open document cataloging and metadata management sys‐
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DESCRIPTION

12       ScrollKeeper is a system for managing document metadata.   Its  primary
13       function  is  to  act as a card catalog for documents, keeping track of
14       what documents are available, where they  can  be  found,  and  various
15       attributes  of  the  documents such as their language, format, subject,
16       version, and position in a contents list.  It also manages other  meta‐
17       data such as document indices.
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19       ScrollKeeper  acts  as  a  middle  layer  between applications and help
20       browsers.  When applications install documentation,  the  documentation
21       is  registered  with ScrollKeeper.  Any ScrollKeeper-aware help browser
22       on the system can then access this information.  In this  way,  Scroll‐
23       Keeper is a compatibility layer which allows any help browser to inter‐
24       face to all the documentation on a system, provided the  package  which
25       ships  the  documentation  registers  it  with  ScrollKeeper.   It also
26       removes much of the burden from application packagers and help  browser
27       developers  by  providing  a standard set of tools and by doing much of
28       the work inside of ScrollKeeper.
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RESOURCES

32       The ScrollKeeper web pages can be found at  http://scrollkeeper.source‐
33       forge.net  and  the  mailing  list can be found at http://lists.source‐
34       forge.net/lists/listinfo/scrollkeeper-devel.
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AVAILABILITY

38       ScrollKeeper is licensed under the GNU Lesser Public License (LGPL).  A
39       copy  of  this  license  can  be  read in the file COPYING shipped with
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42       The latest version of  ScrollKeeper  can  be  found  at  http://source‐
43       forge.net/projects/scrollkeeper.
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FILES

47       /etc/scrollkeeper.conf
48       /var/log/scrollkeeper.log
49       /var/lib/scrollkeeper/*
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AUTHOR

53       Laszlo Kovacs   <laszlo.kovacs@sun.com>
54       Dan Mueth       <d-mueth@uchicago.edu>
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SEE ALSO

58       scrollkeeper-config(1),      scrollkeeper-gen-seriesid(1),      scroll‐
59       keeper.conf(5),  scrollkeeper-preinstall(8),  scrollkeeper-rebuilddb(8)
60       scrollkeeper-update(8)
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65scrollkeeper                      Dec 5, 2001                  SCROLLKEEPER(7)