[Web4lib] Re: Google Search Appliance and OPACs

[Karen Merguerian]

It wasn't us AFAIK, although our Law School Library is a NELLCO member.
:-) I think it was Franklin Pierce Law Center.  They were looking at
using GSA as a federated search engine, but the licensing was
problematic and the price was too high, so after the pilot they
abandoned that solution for a software development project with Danish
company Index Data.  The project has been awarded IMLS grant funding.    

Karen Merguerian
Northeastern University Libraries

> From: peter at OhioLINK.edu
> To: gemstonelogan at gmail.com
> Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2008 17:51:50 -0500
> CC: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Subject: [Web4lib] Re: Google Search Appliance and OPACs
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> On Feb 5, 2008, at 11:25 AM, Gem Stone-Logan wrote:
> > Out of curiosity, has anyone experimented with using the Google Search
> > appliance for retrieving information from an ILS database?  If so,  
> > what was
> > your experience with it?  I'm thinking of an implementation where  
> > Google
> > retrieves the results but then points the user to specific OPAC  
> > records.
> 
> 
> There was some work done in the NELLCO consortium in advance of their  
> IMLS Leadership Grant.  I think Northeastern U was the lead  
> institution, but I don't have any further details.
> 
> 
> Peter
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