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</head>
<body bgcolor=white style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial">
-<table align=center>
+
+<p>
+This is the documentation of <i>rasdaman community</i>, a free, open-source middleware extending standard relational database systems with the ability to efficiently query and manipulate multi-dimensional arrays of unlimited size.
+Such arrays are also called "raster data", "gridded data", etc. depending on the application domain.
+</p>
+<table width="70%" align=center>
<tr>
<td>
- <br><br>
- <li><a href=pdf/inst-guide.pdf target=_top>installation and administration guide</A>
- <li><a href=pdf/external-guide-POSTGRESQL.pdf target=_top>PostgreSQL external products guide</A>
+ <li>If you want to set up rasdaman then you should consult the <a href=pdf/inst-guide.pdf target=_top>Installation and Administration Guide</A>;
+ best read in conjunction with the <a href=pdf/external-guide-POSTGRESQL.pdf target=_top>PostgreSQL External Products Guide</A>.
<p>
- <li><a href=pdf/rview-guide.pdf target=_top>rview guide</A>
- <li><a href=pdf/ql-guide.pdf target=_top>query language guide</A><P>
- <li>C++ <a href=pdf/dev-guide-c++.pdf target=_top>development guide</A> and <a href=html/raslib/index.html target=_top>API reference</A>
- <li>Java <a href=pdf/dev-guide-java.pdf target=_top>development guide</A> and <a href=html/rasj/index.html target=_top>API reference</A>
+ <li>Retrieval and manipulation of raster data is documented in the <a href=pdf/ql-guide.pdf target=_top>Query Language Guide</A> (PDF).
+ The visual query frontend, <i>rview</i>, is described in the <a href=pdf/rview-guide.pdf target=_top>rview guide</A> (PDF).
<P>
- <li><a href=pdf/error-messages.pdf target=_top>error messages</A>
+ <li>For client API programming there is a <a href=pdf/dev-guide-c++.pdf>C++ Development Guide</A> (PDF) and <a href=pdf/dev-guide-java.pdf>Java Development Guide</A> (PDF) together with <a href=doc-api/html/index.html>documentation</A> (HTML).
+ <P>
+ <li>For those who wish to study the sources there is an HTML documentation of the <a href=doc-all/html/index.html>complete system</a>, <a href=doc-api/html/index.html>API</A>, and the <a href="doc-basedbms/html/index.html">PostgreSQL base DBMS interface</a>
+ <p>
+ <li>Finally, there is a <a href=pdf/error-messages.pdf target=_top>list of error messages</A>.
</td>
</tr>
</table>
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<br>
<p>
-Rasdaman community is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-(at your option) any later version.
-</p>
-<p>
-Rasdaman community is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
-GNU General Public License for more details.
-</p>
-<p>
-You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Rasdaman. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+<i>Rasdaman community</i> is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+<i>Rasdaman community</i> is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.
+You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with rasdaman. If not, see <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/" target="licence">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/</a>.
</p>
<p>
-Copyright &copy; 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 Peter Baumann / <a href="http://www.rasdaman.com">rasdaman GmbH</a> Germany.
+Copyright &copy; 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 Peter Baumann / <a href="http://www.rasdaman.com">rasdaman GmbH</a> Germany.
</p>
<p>
For more information see <a href="http://www.rasdaman.org" target="_new">http://www.rasdaman.org</a>