[Web4lib] Office 2003 research service

[Andrew Nagy]

Elena OMalley wrote:

>This post mentions John Wohlers' work to put a library web catalog search 
>into the Microsoft Office 2003 research pane.
>http://www.libraryjournal.com/blog/670000067/post/1360000936.html?nid=2700
>I remember this mentioned at Computers in Libraries 04, but I haven't looked
>into the implementation until now because we didn't have Office 2003 widely
>distributed on campus.
>
>Is anyone familiar with implementations of this for an opac or other 
>library-related sources other than Wohlers'?
>  
>
Elena, I built a PHP script to handle this.  The script accepts the MS 
Search XML query via SOAP and converts it to a Z39.50 query to our 
catalog and then returns the results back as an MS Search XML result.  
In the end, we choose not to implement it because we just didn't see 
much value in it.  The web interface to the catalog (as ugly as it is) 
is more feature rich and most users are used to it.

Let me know if you have any questions
Andrew