Summon (was: Re: Preliminary report on user research for eXtensible Catalog)

From: Till Kinstler <kinstler_at_nyob>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 17:02:23 +0200
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Edward M. Corrado schrieb:

> Yes, the ability to create your on interfaces using the API is great. 

Is there some documentation or whatever available on that API somewhere?

> While there certainly are technical changes of provided > 400,000 items 
> (most in full text) for people to re-index on there own,

The Dartmouth College Beta at 
http://dartmouth.summon.serialssolutions.com/ has 170,508,797(!) records 
(http://dartmouth.summon.serialssolutions.com/search/results?spellcheck=true&q=), 
though I have the feeling only part of it with fulltext indexed (if any).
You can handle that (Summon is using Solr as index software, correct?), 
but you'll need some hardware, I guess... Throw away your OPAC, even if 
it can technically handle that amount of data, you won't find anything 
with typical OPAC search and sort capabilities.

> bigger issue is getting the publishers who are providing Serials 
> Solutions the content to agree to this.

We are getting some data from commercial providers as well. There seems 
to be a wide range of attitudes among providers what one is allowed to 
do with that data. That is an issue, sure. And it gets really tricky 
when you have a data pool with different licenses attached...

Regards,
Till

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Received on Thu Jun 18 2009 - 11:02:48 EDT