Re: Seeking examples of outstanding discovery layers

From: Nate Hill <nathanielhill_at_nyob>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:13:36 -0400
To: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
I keep on thinking about how infrequently I use search to surface the media
that I want.

I mean, if I was doing serious research yeah I'd search and drill way past
2.5 pages of results, I'd look at facets, I'd go bananas getting to the
stuff I need to get to.

But increasingly I deal with interfaces that treat search as a secondary
feature, with predictive or popular results being visually pushed to the
'home page'.

Think about your Apple TV, for example.






On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Rene Wiermer <rwiermer_at_googlemail.com>wrote:

> Promoting our own site:
> http://www.theeuropeanlibrary.org
>
> We are aggregating bibliographic records from 48 European national
> libraries, major research libraries and some other free sources. We
> also feature some special exhibitions, full text content and some
> federated search for those collections that cannot be harvested.
>
> It is a complete in-house development,Java/Solr based, from
> aggregation and processing framework to frontend, using Apache Wicket.
>
> Regards,
> Rene Wiermer
>



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Received on Thu Sep 20 2012 - 16:18:28 EDT