[WEB4LIB] Cross-campus searching

[Keith Higgs]

I've heard a number of students here at CWRU tell that you can set up a
reasonably effective search service with not a lot of effort using htdig
on a Linux box.  Just configure htdig to look at specific domains on
whatever schedule you like.  You'll need to run one of the SQL packages
that ship with most Linux distros but there again, fairly simple to get
set up.

There are also a few Perl based packages that can be tied into Apache
and your favorite SQL.

D. Keith Higgs <mailto:dkh2 at po.cwru.edu>
 Case Western Reserve University, Webmaster - University Library
 Additional Information at http://www.cwru.edu/UL/
"Follow the white rabbit."


> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org 
> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Sika Berger
> Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 01:08 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Cross-campus searching
> 
> 
> Web4Lib'ers,
> 
> I am looking for free (or at the least low-maintenance) search engines
> that can be easily configured to search multiple domains.   There are
> two or three questions here, please offer any tidbit of info. you may
> have...
> 
> Our campus is part of a five college consortium, and we'd 
> like to set up
> a "search our site" feature that looks across all the libraries'
> websites, perhaps also presenting options to restrict to all the
> libraries' "policies" or "research" sub-directories.  
> 
> The Google University search is appealing for one campus.  Does anyone
> know of plans to allow multiple domain searching in the near future?  
> I've sent them a question and received no reply.   Their University
> Search FAQ says:
> 15. How many domains can I search over? 
>          Universities can search over one domain at a time. At this
> point in time, you can not search over multiple domains at the same
> time. 
> 
> Google's Free Site Search FAQ says:
> 
> 6. How many domains can I search over? 
>          You can give your users the option of searching over many
> different domains.
> Each of these options will appear below the search box after 
> the option
> to search the Internet. In order to list all of these 
> domains, you need
> to separate domains with a semi-colon. 
> 
> If anyone can offer experience or insight, I'd appreciate hearing from
> you.
> 
> **********
> 
> Finally, any experience with Alkaline?  I've searched their online
> support postings and found some encouraging comments.
> http://alkaline.vestris.com/
> 
> **********
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> Sika Berger
> Web Coordinating Committee Chair
> Smith College Libraries
> Northampton, MA   01063
> sberger at smith.edu
> 
> 
> 
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