In this directory you can find tools capable of creating
a valid evolving association index out of the data produced
by the retrieval tools.
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allAssociationMembers.sh
 This uses the directory testData (linked to the
 directory containing the results of the retrieval tools)
 to produce a XML-representation of all involved Documents.

linkBase.sh
 This can consume the output of allAssociationMembers.sh
 and transform it into a valid evolving association index.
 Therefore it also needs access to the testData directory,
 because it makes heavy use of the "document()" function in
 xslt to integrate all the separated documents.

dateConverter.py
 This can be used to transform the date in the result of
 linkBase.sh to a representation with better machine comparable
 informations. The original date is maintained and enriched by two
 attributes containing a Unix-time conforming representation of
 dates or intervals.

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process
 This contains some tools for the processing. They are likely to
 be tailored to a linux system, but the includet binaries are all 
 open source and should therefore easily be found for other systems.
 Some scripts are written in PYTHON and therefore a PYTHON interpreter
 with the corresponding libraries should be present

testData
 This is a link to the concrete testData. Maybe replace this by a link
 to another location suited to your test data.

tools
 Further tools mostly based on the tools found in process


