A Verity collection is the fundamental structure underlying the search capabilities of Verity applications. A collection consists of information about a particular set of documents that are available for searching and viewing. The specific information stored for a collection includes a word index and various other indexes, plus a document table containing document field information and logical pointers to the document files. The Verity Collection Stop List file contains a list of words that are to be excluded from a collection’s full-word index.
11/2023 (v.115)- Modified the offset values in the internal signature from null to 0 as part of a project to match PRONOM data with the xsd standard. Internally researched.
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