Ockham Alert is written in Perl and prefers MySQL as its database back-end and swish-e as its indexer. Access to the index is through a Web Services protocol called SRU (Search/Retrieve via URL). Outputs from the service include HTML, RSS, and email messages.

This system was implemented as a part of National Science Foundation grant (DUE-0333601) called OCKHAM Library Network, Integrating the NSDL into Traditional Library Services.

Eric Lease Morgan (emorgan@nd.edu), February 27, 2007