Open Source Rivals to Vendor Discovery Systems

From: Jimmy Ghaphery <jghapher_at_nyob>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 12:56:50 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
NGC4LIB,

Set me straight... What viable open source alternatives do you see to 
Vendor Discovery Systems such as WorldCat local, Primo, Summon, and 
Ebsco Discovery? In all of these options above it seems the kicker is 
the locally hosted and aggregated journal article data.

Would the only options be a solrized index of local data and fetching 
journal articles through some type of federated search api and then 
somehow interfiling/ranking results? Can that type of mousetrap overcome 
the power of having all of that data in one place?

Examples welcome!

--Jimmy

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Jimmy Ghaphery
Head, Library Information Systems
VCU Libraries
http://www.library.vcu.edu
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Received on Thu Jun 24 2010 - 12:59:34 EDT