Re: Automatic Notification of New DB Entries

In article <33a5bq$k8v@news1.digex.net> ashore@access1.digex.net (Arnold Shore) writes: > >Background: I'm assisting a friend whose organization is coming onto the >Net. Key applications is a full-text database which we will available to >'net and other users. (A Z39.50 implementation is certainly a natural >here, and we're considering that.) > >Point at hand: We're considering supporting 'standing' search requests as >a service to users. Such requests would be run against new/arriving >documents as these enter the data base. Matches would result in >automatically-generated e-mail to the interested party, with notification >of title, author, keywords/subjects matched, etc. > >Problem: But running each standing query against each new record/document >would be a real machine-eater, and we're looking for a better way to >accomplish that. > >Possible solution: We've found a software product, LMDS, that will do this >nicely with some moderate integration effort. > >Question: But there have to be others, and I'm interested in hearing from >anyone working this field who might be familiar with the problem and other >solutions. > > We have a tremendous amount of experience with "real-time" text retrieval and profiling databases ( Dow Jones TeleRate News, Reuters Smart-Investor, IDD News, and many Govt. Apps.). For more information see: (mosaic) http://iris.thunderstone.com or (gopher) gopher://thunder.thunderstone.com BTW, if you are thinking of profiling Usenet News or RFC 822 mail we already have the bridges available. P. Barton Richards ( Bart ) Thunderstone Software / EPI, Inc. Phone: 216-631-8544 11115 Edgewater Dr. Fax : 216-281-0828 Cleveland, Ohio 44102 Email: bart@thunderstone.com