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

[Ross Singer]

On 4/21/06, Dale Askey <daskey at ksu.edu> wrote:
> 2 - Unless talented library programmers/developers such as Ross and
> David Walker can clone themselves,

I think I can speak for David as well as myself when I say "be careful
what you wish for".

> 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.

I cannot agree with this more.  This is a /huge/ problem with our
current slate of software options.

>
> 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?

This is a good point, and, Dale, I'd be willing to work with you on
such an endeavor.  In fact, in a presentation I'm going to give in 40
minutes, I'll mention how I've been horribly remiss at contributing
/any/ documentation for what I'm talking about (despite complaining
about the lack of documentation available).

Is this something appropriate for the Library Success Wiki (or whatever it is)?

Also, in regards to link resolvers in general...  I would like to
suggest that we build a microformat for the link resolver results
menu.  Not everyone has a link resolver that outputs XML, but with a
microformat, that wouldn't be necessary and it would allow people to
include the output of their resolver menu in other places.

-Ross.
ps. due to flaky internet connectivity, that presentation was actually
about 2 hours ago.  And, yeah, I mentioned just this.

>
> 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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