On Sep 28, 2007, at 10:55 AM, Barbara Blummer wrote:
> We are a special library in need of a federated search engine that is
> locally hosted. We looked at Vivisimo, but it is too robust for
> our needs.
> Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
Consider exploring Pazpar2:
http://indexdata.com/pazpar2/
http://masterkey.indexdata.com/
In many ways this is a Z30.50 client on steroids. Feed it a query,
and it does the searching while streaming faceted results as they are
returned. If your remote indexes are not Z39.50-accessible I thin
Pazpar2 can be tweaked/hacked/changed so they appear to be Z39.50
clients. Anyway, the dollar cost is right -- "free as a free kitten".
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Eric Lease Morgan
University Libraries of Notre Dame
Received on Fri Sep 28 2007 - 15:01:21 EDT