[Web4lib] Federated search products and Full Text/PeerReview limiting

[Dale Askey]

People certainly had fun with my suggestion to slap a link resolver 
button on federated search results. A couple of comments:

1 - Hey, in many instances, it would be an improvement over offering 
nothing. I agree with everyone's criticisms, particularly Ross's 
arguments about blind alleys, but one has to start somewhere.

2 - Unless talented library programmers/developers such as Ross and 
David Walker can clone themselves, or unless we're all suddenly blessed 
with the development capacities of the CDL, the more exotic features 
you're describing need to be a whole lot easier to implement (say, 
integrated into the vendor's product, ideally). There's a reason why the 
rest of us salivate when we see Cal State San Marco's SFX installation, 
but it's not something that libraries of all sizes can just do without a 
lot of assistance.

To that end, I would ask who out there has documented their extensions 
and modifications to a link resolver to do some of the things described 
in this thread. If we're going to declare a service standard, we need to 
share the love, don't we?

Dale

Roy Tennant wrote:
> On Apr 18, 2006, at 2:27 PM, Karen Harker wrote:
> 
>> My conclusion then is, if we can let the user know the exact status of 
>> obtaining each citation at the exact point of need, their experience 
>> with the Library would improve.
> 
> Bingo.
> 
>> Which leads me to what I was originally going to ask Roy:  more 
>> details (about their project), please....
> 
> What we are attempting to do is to use the ability of SFX to accept 
> multiple OpenURLs in one resolving request to do a lookup before sending 
> search results to the user interface. Since we haven't been able to get 
> this to work yet, we are presently trying a work-around in which we send 
> multiple requests. This is of course not optimal, but until we get a fix 
> it will have to do. Luckily, our initial load should be relatively 
> slight to begin with. I do not have anything publicly available to show 
> yet, although we are getting close to an early alpha prototype.
> Roy
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