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> and probably 8x less compressed than it should be

ZIM uses zstd so it is pretty compressed--but the thing that takes a lot of room is actually the full-text search index built in to each ZIM file.

Unfortunately the UI of kiwix-serve search doesn't take full advantage of this and the search experience kinda sucks...

Have you done anything useful with RDF? Seems like it is just one of those things universities spend money on and it doesn't really do anything



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