SCROLLKEEPER(R)                                   SCROLLKEEPER(R)



NAME
       ScrollKeeper  -  An  open document cataloging and metadata
       management system.



DESCRIPTION
       ScrollKeeper is a system for managing  document  metadata.
       Its primary function is to act as a card catalog for docu-
       ments, keeping track  of  what  documents  are  available,
       where  they  can  be  found, and various attributes of the
       documents such as their language,  format,  subject,  ver-
       sion,  and  position  in a contents list.  It also manages
       other metadata such as document indices.

       ScrollKeeper acts as a middle layer  between  applications
       and  help  browsers.  When applications install documenta-
       tion, the documentation is registered  with  ScrollKeeper.
       Any ScrollKeeper-aware help browser on the system can then
       access this information.  In this way, ScrollKeeper  is  a
       compatibility  layer  which  allows  any  help  browser to
       interface to all the documentation on a  system,  provided
       the  package  which  ships  the documentation registers it
       with ScrollKeeper.  It also removes  much  of  the  burden
       from  application packagers and help browser developers by
       providing a standard set of tools and by doing much of the
       work inside of ScrollKeeper.


RESOURCES
       The  ScrollKeeper web pages can be found at http://scroll-
       keeper.sourceforge.net and the mailing list can  be  found
       at     http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scroll-
       keeper-devel.


AVAILABILITY
       ScrollKeeper is  licensed  under  the  GNU  Lesser  Public
       License (LGPL).  A copy of this license can be read in the
       file COPYING shipped with ScrollKeeper.

       The  latest  version  of  ScrollKeeper  can  be  found  at
       http://sourceforge.net/projects/scrollkeeper.


FILES
       /etc/scrollkeeper.conf
       /var/log/scrollkeeper.log
       /var/lib/scrollkeeper/*


AUTHOR
       Laszlo Kovacs   <laszlo.kovacs@sun.com>
       Dan Mueth       <d-mueth@uchicago.edu>


SEE ALSO
       scrollkeeper-config(g),      scrollkeeper-gen-seriesid(d),
       scrollkeeper.conf(f), scrollkeeper-preinstall(l),  scroll-
       keeper-rebuilddb(b) scrollkeeper-update(e)




scrollkeeper               Dec 5, 2001            SCROLLKEEPER(R)