[Web4lib] Office 2003 research service

[Dempsey,Lorcan]

The OCLC Terminologies Pilot is looking at surfacing several
terminologies in the Connexion editing environment using the Microsoft
Research Pane. 

In a Research context, we are also interested in working in this way
with other terminologies and other editing environments.

Links to the Pilot, to some information about the Terminology Services
project in OCLC Research, and to some discussion of the use of the
Research Pane can be found at:
http://orweblog.oclc.org/archives/000695.html

There is a direct link to the Terminologies Pilot at:
http://www.oclc.org/productworks/terminologiespilot.htm

Lorcan 


Lorcan Dempsey [http://orweblog.oclc.org] 
OCLC Research  [http://www.oclc.org/research/]

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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Andrew Nagy
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 4:41 PM
To: Elena OMalley
Cc: Recipients of SYSLIB-L digests; web4lib
Subject: Re: [Web4lib] Office 2003 research service

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=2
>700 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

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