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Citation
(1999), "New version of What'sHot software", Asian Libraries, Vol. 8 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/al.1999.17308bad.008
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 1999, MCB UP Limited
New version of What'sHot software
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New version of What'sHot software
Resource Discovery Unit has released a beta version of What'sHot software. The package contains a "customisable" search engine, a Web crawler and a client. The software is designed to support shared indexes of resources and can be used to index Web pages. It may be configured to index and search any other types of resources (videos, books, museum items, etc.), but the relevant documentation and samples are yet to be released. What'sHot supports not only remote indexing, but decentralised real-time indexing as well. This means that any site can run its own indexer (crawler) to update the central index. The package can be used to support medium-sized collections (up to a million records). You can visit its home page at http://what-shot.vic.cmis.csiro.au/home.html