[Web4lib] Does anyone need a federated OPAC search?

[David Kane]

These things depend on NCIP protocol, which was a nightmare.  Probably
improved now though as they have rewritten the standard.

I am mostly interested in patrons experience.  This is where an ILL
consortial system succeeds or fails, in my experience and it is what LTFL
can do well.  So, I really would like to see something happen here - from
the user interface down, rather than the other way around.

My 2Cents.

David.

On 24 March 2010 15:04, B.G. Sloan <bgsloan2 at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> Tim,
>
> Check out the FufILLment Project. Sounds like they are trying to do
> something sorta similar via open source:
>
> http://fulfillment-ill.org/
>
> Bernie Sloan
>
> --- On Tue, 3/23/10, Tim Spalding <tim at librarything.com> wrote:
>
>
> From: Tim Spalding <tim at librarything.com>
> Subject: [Web4lib] Does anyone need a federated OPAC search?
> To: web4lib at webjunction.org
> Date: Tuesday, March 23, 2010, 11:25 AM
>
>
> Are there any libraries out there who could benefit from a search that
> combined two or more OPACs onto one page of results?
>
> I'm looking for people who want it, but aren't actually in the market
> for a gazillion-dollar "federated search" solution. I'm thinking there
> must be some libraries with reciprocal lending agreements with other
> libraries, but no easy unified catalog. I'd particularly like to find
> someone with a bunch of different catalogs from different vendors.
>
> This would be free for the life of the test and, if we make a sellable
> product, for at least a year after.
>
> Tim
>
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