I'd investigate OSU's LibraryFind product too, also free.
(Is surprised that there weren't immediately a dozen message saying
this. Maybe eveyone else, like myself, figured everyone else would say
it so didn't bother).
Jonathan
Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
> 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".
>
> --
> Eric Lease Morgan
> University Libraries of Notre Dame
>
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Jonathan Rochkind
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The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
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Received on Fri Sep 28 2007 - 15:20:01 EDT