Many people have contributed to this document, many without actually knowing. We wish to thank the following people:
The original SMART authors and contributors: Gerard Salton, Chris Buckley and members of the SMART group, whitout which nothing of this would exist.
Contributors to the SMART project, people who gave their time to write tutorials, article, propaganda and such, to whom we have (almost) shamelessly stolen material for this document. They are, in many sense, the real authors of this document. When possible, whole sections of their documents have been reproduced integrally here. This document merely glues them together and tries to give a single reference from which a user would start.
Ghita Bouayad, who wrote completely the (lengthy) section titled "Creation of a SMART collection". She put many hours on this - we are grateful. Thanks again!
Jian-Yun Nie, our teacher for the course on Information Research at the University of Montreal (ift6255), who was interested in seeing SMART documented in the first place.