[Web4lib] Federated search recommendations sought

[Brian Gray]

Thanks for sharing. I had not seen that yet.

Brian Gray
mindspiral at gmail.com
bcg8 at case.edu


On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 5:12 PM, Michael <drweb at san.rr.com> wrote:

> Excellent point, Brian, but there's the recent news to consider; Google
> just bought Metaweb:
>
> http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2010/07/google_gets_sem.html
>
> For libraries, I think we can still do more via the overlay or discovery
> tools from our vendor community or open source, than with the generalized
> metasearch tools (which indeed are built for different reasons). IMHO...
>
> Take care,
> Michael
>
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> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 12:55 PM, Brian Gray <mindspiral at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I would also look at the discovery products in your comparison.
>> Organizations are starting to move away from federated tools to the
>> discovery tools because of speed, interfaces, pre-indexed faceting, etc.
>>
>> Brian Gray
>> mindspiral at gmail.com
>> bcg8 at case.edu
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 3:08 PM, Stacy Pober <stacy.pober at manhattan.edu
>> >wrote:
>>
>> > Are you happy with your federated search service?   We're starting to
>> > look into getting one and would like recommendations.  (And if you
>> > really hate the one you've got, tell me that, too - that will also be
>> > useful.)
>> >
>> > Advance thanks.
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Stacy Pober
>> > Information Alchemist
>> > Manhattan College Library
>> > Riverdale, NY 10471
>> > stacy.pober at manhattan.edu
>> >
>> >
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