Glossary of terms

This is a list of terms and their meaning as used in the InterPublish documentation:

Term	Meaning

accept a document	A document is judged by a librarian to be of further interest to patrons.
administrator	The InterPublish application administrator in your organisation.
alert	Notification to patrons about documents of interest.
capture	InterPublish downloads documents that have met its search criteria.
configuration	Specifying the parameters InterPublish will use to scan for documents of interest.
document	An article, story, post, email, tweet or other viable item of internet content which typically has a date, title and author.
email list	The email addresses of a group of patrons with common research interests for the purpose of sending them alerts.
false positive	An off-topic document that nevertheless met the search and filter criteria.
filter terms	Further terms applied to refine a list of document candidates.
InterPublish	A web-based application for automated monitoring and capture of internet content.
InterPublish database	InterPublish's database for holding documents to be reviewed by the librarian.
metadata	Content describing the properties of a document, such as date, title, author.
monitor	Repeated checking of target site/s at a defined interval.
off-topic	Not relevant to the topic of interest.
patrons	Clients or customers of the library on whose behalf target sites are being monitored.
PDF	Portable Document Format - a file format designed to be independendent of particular software and hardware.
publish	The capture, storage and indexing of documents in a repository for later search and retrieval.
reject document	You judge a candidate document is not of interest to patrons and discard it.
repository	A database, separate to Interpublish, for holding a collection of electronic documents for later search and retrieval.
result set	One or more articles captured by InterPublish as a result of a single scan.
review	Manual action taken by the librarian to filter captured articles.
scan	The act of searching for articles that match a search query.
search criteria	The search terms and other information which allows InterPublish to find the specified content on specified sites.
search terms	A list of words and qualifiers designed to identify a list of relevant documents.
search group	A collection of target sites and search terms of common interest to a group of patrons.
shortlist	A list of documents which has been culled to ensure relevance.
site	A source of content on the internet.
target site	An internet site being monitored by InterPublish.

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Glossary of terms
This is a list of terms and their meaning as used in the InterPublish documentation:

Term
Meaning

accept a document
A document is judged by a librarian to be of further interest to patrons.

administrator
The InterPublish application administrator in your organisation.

alert
Notification to patrons about documents of interest.

capture
InterPublish downloads documents that have met its search criteria.

configuration
Specifying the parameters InterPublish will use to scan for documents of interest.

document
An article, story, post, email, tweet or other viable item of internet content which ...