Digital Library Federation Forum, April 12, 2006
Unbundling the ILS: Deploying an e-commerce catalog search solution
Endeca ProFind Overview
Raw MARC data
NCSU exports and reformats
Flat text files
Data Foundry
Parse text files
Indices
Navigation Engine
NCSU Web Application
HTTP
Client browser
HTTP
Offline - Nightly
Data Foundry and creation of Indices are part of nightly update, but they occur off-line, and don’t affect functioning of online requests to NCSU Web Application (passed to Navigation Engine)