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
Always Online
This is always live. We start a new navigation engine instance with new indices before terminating the old so users don’t experience any down-time