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- INTRODUCTION TO THE MIR TUTORIAL SERIES
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- 0. Table of Contents
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- 1. Computer indexing and retrieval techniques
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- 1.1 Tutorial 1 Database Analysis
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- 1.2 Tutorial 2 Secrets of Data Preparation
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- 1.3 Tutorial 3 Keys to Automated Indexing
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- 1.4 Tutorial 4 Search Engines and Information Retrieval
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- 1.5 Tutorial 5 Related Topics and Applications
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- 1.6 The Book and CD-ROM
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- 1.7 Timing of successive releases
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- 1.8 Summary
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- 2. Who should be using MIR Tutorials
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- 2.1 Table of users and benefits
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- 2.2 Directors of Information Services
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- 2.3 Custom software providers
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- 2.4 Information publishers
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- 2.5 Government information distributors
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- 2.6 Educators and trainers
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- 2.7 Programmers
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- 3. Why you want to use MIR Tutorials
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- 3.1 End users and the thirst for knowledge
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- 3.2 Coping with data glut
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- 3.3 Empowering users
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- 3.4 Empowering an industry
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- 3.5 Beyond fast search
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- 4. How the MIR project works for you
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- 4.1 "Free" software
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- Free Software Foundation
- What is copyleft?
- "Programs to the People"
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- 4.2 Interactive shareware publishing
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- Shareware advantages
- Innotech
- Marpex
- Co-operative development
- Progressive releases
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- 4.3 Engine-independent techniques
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- The plea for familiar interfaces
- Interoperability
- Separating interface and server modules
- Contenders - CD-RDx, SFQL, etc.
- Copyleft and evolving standards
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- 4.4 The software provided
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- Scope
- Naming conventions
- Support files
- Executable programs
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- 5. Your GNU General Public License
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- 5.1 Preamble to the General Public License
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- 5.2 GNU General Public License
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- 5.3 Appendix
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