Rarian is a document

cataloging In library and information science, cataloging ( US) or cataloguing ( UK) is the process of creating metadata representing information resources, such as books, sound recordings, moving images, etc. Cataloging provides information such as auth ...

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 (OMF). Rarian is used by the

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desktop help browser,

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. It has replaced

ScrollKeeper ScrollKeeper is a document cataloging system. It manages documentation metadata, as specified by the Open Source Metadata Framework (OMF). ScrollKeeper was used by the GNOME desktop help browser, Yelp, but has since been replaced by Rarian.ht ...

, 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