EnContRA

EnContRA - an Engine for Content Retrieval Applications

EnContRA is an architectural meta-framework that provides structure and generic building blocks for creating domain specific frameworks and retrieval applications, with minimum effort.

This meta-framework aims at being easy to use for fast prototype research, including validating new descriptors, indexing structures, searching algorithms, etc.

Designed as a set of interconnected empty containers, defining the main components and their links, EnContRA’s modular architecture not only offers to developers the common structure and building blocks for typical Information Retrieval (IR) tasks, such as, indexing, searching and querying, but also provides the necessary abstraction so they can add new behavior whenever they need.