Rarian

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Rarian
Developer(s) Don Scorgie
Stable release
0.8.1 / September 1, 2008
Written in C
Operating system Linux
Type Document cataloging
Website rarian.freedesktop.org

Rarian is a document cataloging system (formerly known as Spoon). It manages documentation metadata, as specified by the Open Source Metadata Framework (OMF). Rarian is used by the GNOME desktop help browser, Yelp. [1] It has replaced ScrollKeeper, as originally designed. [2] It provides an API.

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References

  1. "Apps/Yelp - GNOME Wiki!".
  2. http://rarian.freedesktop.org/