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Rarian is a document cataloging system (formerly known as Spoon). It manages documentation metadata, as specified by the Open Source Metadata Framework (OMF). Rarian is used by the GNOME
GNOME
GNOME is a desktop environment and graphical user interface that runs on top of a computer operating system. It is composed entirely of free and open source software...

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

, as originally designed.

It provides an API
Application programming interface
An application programming interface is a source code based specification intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other...

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