[WEB4LIB] Re: Cross-database search tools

[Houston Louise]

Roy, 
I would also be interested in results of your enquiry.  Will you be posting
them to the list?

Louise Houston
Library Systems Coordinator, Supreme Court of Canada
613-947-0628
houstonl at scc-csc.gc.ca


-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Hellman [mailto:eric at openly.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 3:07 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: [WEB4LIB] Re: Cross-database search tools


At 10:02 AM -0700 8/22/01, Roy Tennant wrote:
>I am trying to survey any cross-database search tools that are 
>presently in production. These are applications that take one search 
>query, send it out to multiple databases and return organized 
>results (not necessarily de-duped) to the user. Some examples:

I'd also be interested in hearing user reaction on services like this.

There are of course a number of commercial players in this field.

Webfeat http://www.webfeat.org/  is an interesting approach.

Muse Global http://www.museglobal.com/  Not sure if this is in production.

VDX/ZPORTAL    from fretwell-downing 
http://www.fdgroup.com/fdi/vdx/about.html another interesting 
approach.

And I think you'll see more, better, soon. I've seen things in 
research labs that may blow these away. Then again, maybe not.

Eric
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