[Web4lib] Re: Google Search Appliance and OPACs

[B.G. Sloan]

  This may have been mentioned earlier in this thread. My apologies if I missed it.
   
  NELLCO's experiment with the Google Search Appliance (GSA) failed. I guess it worked well from a technical perspective, but NELLCO thoght Google's GSA pricing model was cost-prohibitive on a larger scale.
   
  For the current $364K IMLS national leadership grant, NELLCO is working with Index Data.
   
  See:
   
  http://dltj.org/article/nellco-uss/
  http://www.nellco.org/IMLS/Press%20Release.pdf
   
  Bernie Sloan

Peter Murray <peter at OhioLINK.edu> wrote:
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Someone sent me a correction privately -- the GSA experiment was 
conducted by the Franklin Pierce Law Center. Thank you, Karen M., for 
refreshing my memory.


Peter

On Feb 6, 2008, at 5:51 PM, Peter Murray wrote:
> 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.

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