Rarian is a document cataloging system (formerly known as Spoon). It manages documentation

metadata Metadata is "data that provides information about other data", but not the content of the data, such as the text of a message or the image itself. There are many distinct types of metadata, including: * Descriptive metadata – the descriptive ...

, as specified by the

Open Source Metadata Framework 220px, Logo image of DCMI, which formulates Dublin Core The Dublin Core, also known as the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set (DCMES), is a set of fifteen "core" elements (properties) for describing resources. This fifteen-element Dublin Core has ...

(OMF). Rarian is used by the

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desktop help browser, Yelp. It has replaced ScrollKeeper, as originally designed.http://rarian.freedesktop.org/ It provides an API.

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Rarian

Open Source Metadata Framework
Freedesktop.org libraries GNOME KDE Metadata {{linux-stub