freeWAIS-sf 2.x & SFgate 5.x User Guide with Figures and Live Examples

Table of Contents:-

• Introduction
  1. Copyright
  2. Credits
• freeWAIS-sf
  1. freeWAIS-sf Basics
     1. Introduction & Credits
     2. Copyright
     3. How freeWAIS-sf Indexes are Built
     4. Limits of freeWAIS-sf - SFgate System
     5. Formulating a Query
  2. Stopword List of freeWAIS-sf
  3. freeWAIS-sf .fmt File Examples
  4. Boolean Searching in freeWAIS-sf
     1. Introduction & Credits
     2. Summary
     3. Upper/Lowercase for Search Terms & Boolean Operators
        1. Search Terms
        2. Search Terms and Boolean Operators
     4. Hierarchy of Boolean Operators
     5. Truncation of Search Terms
     6. Stemming
• SFgate HOWTOs
  1. What is a SFgate-based Form?
  2. How to Choose Fields to Query on
  3. How to Perform a Simple Query
  4. How to Choose Boolean Operators Connections
  5. How to Query for Multiple Terms in a Single Field
  6. How to Perform a Search in a Fields with Names and/or Surnames
  7. How to Perform a Search of Words Containing Apostrophes
  8. How to Search in Numeric or Date Fields
  9. How to Search for Terms that "Sound-like" a Word
  10. How to Perform Phrasal (Literal) Searches
  11. How to Perform Proximity Searches
  12. How to Perform a Search with Truncated Words
  13. How to Perform a Search in More Than a Field
  14. How to Make Complex Boolean Searches Using "Field Groups"
  15. How to Make Complex Queries Using "Textarea"
  16. How to "Fine Tuning" Queries
  17. How to Submit or Cancel a Query
  18. How SFgate Sends Back Documents Matching a Query
  19. How Many Documents are Sent Back?
  20. How to Query Heterogeneous Databases?
• Sources
  1. freeWAIS-sf, Wais perl extension module and SFgate Sources

Copyright

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Credits

The document Boolean Searching in freeWAIS-sf is a free adaptation from four different documents prepared by Natalie Oakes Sturr, Systems Librarian, Penfield Library, SUNY Oswego, Oswego, NY 13126, E-mail: sturr@oswego.edu.