SCROLLKEEPER(7)SCROLLKEEPER(7)NAME
ScrollKeeper - An open document cataloging and metadata management sys‐
tem.
DESCRIPTION
ScrollKeeper is a system for managing document metadata. Its primary
function is to act as a card catalog for documents, keeping track of
what documents are available, where they can be found, and various
attributes of the documents such as their language, format, subject,
version, and position in a contents list. It also manages other meta‐
data such as document indices.
ScrollKeeper acts as a middle layer between applications and help
browsers. When applications install documentation, the documentation
is registered with ScrollKeeper. Any ScrollKeeper-aware help browser
on the system can then access this information. In this way, Scroll‐
Keeper is a compatibility layer which allows any help browser to inter‐
face 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://scrollkeeper.source‐
forge.net and the mailing list can be found at http://lists.source‐
forge.net/lists/listinfo/scrollkeeper-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://source‐
forge.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 ALSOscrollkeeper-config(1), scrollkeeper-gen-seriesid(1), scroll‐
keeper.conf(5), scrollkeeper-preinstall(8), scrollkeeper-rebuilddb(8)scrollkeeper-update(8)scrollkeeper Dec 5, 2001 SCROLLKEEPER(7)
