I'm curious for the metadata aggregation cases as to how the data is
stored/used:
a) Data imported from external sources into local stores?
b) Data queried realtime at record display time?
c) a combination of both?
_alejandro
Marja Haapalainen said the following on 16/02/2010 01:53 a.m.:
> Last year Serials Solutions made quite an impact on the library community with the launch of Summon, to be used as a single point of access for data from various sources. ExLibris, as you know, quickly followed up with a press release about Primo Central. Since then we have also seen similar initiatives from other vendors such as OCLC and EBSCO. We are currently looking at different ways of aggregating metadata (mainly about e-articles, e-journals and e-books) from different sources/publishers. Apart from the commercial vendors, who seem to provide access to their database only through API:s, we are interested in the possibility of storing and indexing the data ourselves. Though this seems to imply some effort in collecting the data, it also gives more flexibility and control over the search services we develop. It would also mean giving libraries more control of how metadata is produced, used and re-used.
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