On 18 May 2010 15:24, Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress <rden_at_loc.gov> wrote:
> There is no synchronous operation in SRU.
>
> As for federated search .
>
> To digress a moment, you may recall -- I believe it was on this list --
> there was discussion (maybe a year ago?) of what that even means and whether
> it is the same or differs from metasearch, whatever that means. That
> discussion was inconclusive. Anyway, earlier drafts of SRU 2.0 describe a
> metasearch model. Recently, the committee decided that the terms
> "metasearch" and "federated search" are undefined jargon. We now choose to
> call it "multi-server search".
Way to go. Introducting yet ANOTHER synonym can only help!
(And don't forget "broadcast search".)
Received on Tue May 18 2010 - 10:41:44 EDT