Mike Taylor from Indexdata made an interesting presentation at the January
2011 (JISC and SCONUL supported) 'Open Edge: Open source for libraries'
conference (see more on http://helibtech.com/Open+Source ). He looked at
the challenges of integrating the 'two worlds' of metasearch and the unified
indexes of 'vertical search/discovery services:
http://www.nesc.ac.uk/talks/1114/Taylor-OpenEdge2011-when-worlds-collide%5B1
%5D.pdf
Ken
Ken Chad Consulting Ltd
Tel +44 (0)7788 727 845. Email: ken_at_kenchadconsulting.com
www.kenchadconsulting.com
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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jean Phillips
Sent: 18 March 2011 18:41
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] The next generation of discovery tools (new LJ
article)
One aspect in the recent development of "Discovery Tools" has to do with
institutions who have worked on developing their own user interface, which
we used to call NextGen catalogs. We have a tool we've developed with the
university librarians that we call Mango that has features the vendor
interfaces don't have. If libraries give up these tools for the commercial
"Discovery Tools" they gain access to e-resources, but lose some things too.
At FCLA and other places there are people working on the ability to include
megaindexes of articles and others into their locally developed or open
source Discovery Tool. We've recently been able to blend the results from
Ex Libris's Primo Central Index in with our local repository of metadata
from the catalog and digital collections sources. We are investigating
being able to do the same with the other commercial megaindexes. This would
make the user interface vendor-neutral in terms of which megaindex is
licensed. That is important in a consortium like ours where each library
could find that a particular vendor's content may be more relevant to their
needs.
We'd be interested in hearing from others that are working on something
similar. In addition to a simple search box that brings back "blended"
results what options do you offer for searching articles only or print only?
Which vendors are you working with? How successful have you been?
Jean Phillips
On Mar 16, 2011, at 12:23 PM, B.G. Sloan wrote:
"The challenge for academic libraries, caught in the seismic shift from
print to electronic resources, is to offer an experience that has the
simplicity of Google—which users expect—while searching the library’s rich
digital and print collections—which users need. Increasingly, they are
turning to a new generation of search tools, called discovery, for help."
See: http://bit.ly/g9KqiX
Bernie Sloan
Jean Phillips
Manager, ILS Services
Florida Center for Library Automation
jeanp_at_ufl.edu
Received on Fri Mar 18 2011 - 15:22:50 EDT