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Document clustering project is a data mining suite to cluster a document set. This set of tools was implemented from a series of papers: "Clustering Web Pages Semantically using Combinatorial Topology", "Data mining using granular computing", and "A fast association rule algorithm based on bitmap and granular computing".
Enhancements:
- A bug with hash table has been fixed.

gnome-settings-visualeffects allows the control of the xcompmgr composite manager, it provides the user with control of the shadow radius,opacity,offsets and colour, and the speed of fades and where they are applied.
Main features:
- Splitting shadow configuration into active and inactive windows
- Adding a path locator and version checker for xcompmgr/transset
- Incorporating window translucency (decided on a minimum of 25%)
- Window translucency can be added to active/inactive windows by single windows or window types i.e. File Chooser, applications or application children, and Im hoping that I can make this persistent.
- Increase compatibility with gdesklets
- Propose to luminocity developers a configuration standard for these types of settings, therefore improving the future of the project.
- Incorporate code from xcompmgr/transset to reduce reliance on what are intended to be demos rather than real life tools.
- Notification area tool/Panel applet for accessing effects quickly.

Borges is an open-source project aimed at XML-aware documentation projects which care about internationalisation, reusable contents, teamwork, etc. The system currently supports the DocBook DTD.
Main features:
- Easily write modular documentation in XML DocBook;
- Compile the source files into various formats, including PDF and HTML;
- Manage different versions of a single manual by easily defining derived versions based on conditional parts;
- Track the state of each module according to six predefined states (from "writing" to "final language proofreading"). Once a task is completed, the corresponding state is passed and the module switches to the next one;
- Each module is assigned a set of contributors: author/translators/proofreaders, each one responsible for one state of a module. Each contributor can easily review his attributions through web pages, and can receive e-mails with his current todo list;
- Track the work in progress, from the whole project (made of various manuals) to the most basic components (paragraphs), and their translations.
Enhancements:
- the modules images compilation issue is now solved
- requires xmllint

SDMS is an open-source system that allows you to store any document in a database via a bunch of webpages.

That was the short description, now comes the long one. SDMS uses PHP to provide you with a pretty interface to a MySQL server that allows you to store and retrieve documents and to share those documents between users.

In addition, the system uses ACL (Access Control Lists) to grant access rights to documents on a per-user basis.

So what is all this good for? Well, it for instance allows you to distribute project documentation on a need-to-know basis, whilst keeping a central repository of documents that is accessible to all team members and easy to manage.

simplesettings 0.5 is an excellent tool for programmers. It provides simple settings for initialization for third party apps and libraries in Python.

Xapian is an Open Source Probabilistic Information Retrieval library, released under the GPL. Xapian iss written in C++, with bindings to allow use from other languages (Perl, Java, Python, PHP, and TCL are currently supported; Guile and C# are being worked on).
Xapian is designed to be a highly adaptable toolkit to allow developers to easily add advanced indexing and search facilities to their own applications.
If youre after a packaged search engine for your website, you should take a look at Omega, which is an application we supply built upon Xapian. But unlike most other website search solutions, Xapians versatility allows you to extend Omega to meet your needs as they grow.
Main features:
- Free Software/Open Source - licensed under the GPL.
- Highly portable - runs on many Linux, MacOS X, many other Unix platforms, and Microsoft Windows.
- Written in C++. Perl bindings are available in the module Search::Xapian on CPAN. Java JNI bindings are included in the xapian-bindings module. We also support SWIG which can generate bindings for 13 languages. At present those for Python, PHP4, and TCL are working. Guile and C# are being worked on.
- Ranked probablistic search - important words get more weight than unimportant words, so the most relevant documents are more likely to come near the top of the results list.
- Relevance feedback - given one or more documents, Xapian can suggest the most relevant index terms to expand a query, suggest related documents, categorise documents, etc.
- Phrase and proximity searching - users can search for words occuring in an exact phrase or within a specified number of words, either in a specified order, or in any order.
- Full range of structured boolean search operators ("stock NOT market", etc). The results of the boolean search are ranked by the probablistic weights. Boolean filters can also be applied to restrict a probabilistic search.
- Supports stemming of search terms (e.g. a search for "football" would match documents which mention "footballs" or "footballer"). This helps to find relevant documents which might otherwise be missed. Stemmers are currently included for Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, and Swedish.
- Supports database files > 2GB - essential for scaling to large document collections.
- Platform independent data formats - you can build a database on one machine and search it on another.
- Allows simultaneous update and searching. New documents become searchable right away.
As well as the library, we supply a number of small example programs, and a larger application - an indexing and CGI-based application called omega:
- The indexer supplied can index HTML, PHP, PDF, PostScript, and plain text. Adding support for indexing other formats is easy where conversion filters are available (e.g. Microsoft Word). This indexer works using the filing system, but we also provide a script to allow the htdig web crawler to be hooked in, allowing remote sites to be searched using Omega.
- You can also index data from any SQL or other RDBMS supported by the Perl DBI module. That includes MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Sybase, MS SQL, LDAP, and ODBC.
- CGI search front-end supplied with highly customisable appearance. This can also be customised to output results in XML or CSV, which is useful if you are dynamically generating pages (e.g. with PHP or mod_perl) and just want raw search results which you can process in your own page layout code.
Enhancements:
- This release adds support for spelling correction and synonym expansion.
- Some Btree tables are now optional, so opening a database is slightly quicker.
- The Xapian::NumberValueRangeProcessor class has been reworked to fix a design flaw.
- A few bugs have been fixed.
- Performance was improved in several cases.

Structured Document Validator project implements a generalized method for validating both the structure and content of structured documents.

Any data format that can be deterministically divided into tags and data is classed as a structured document. This definition applies to a wide array of data formats, including XML, Java properties files, and delimited value files.

The application performs validations based on user-defined Structured Document Definitions (SDDs). It provides an environment for validation, SDD development, and document editing.