Re: The next generation of discovery tools (new LJ article)

From: Jonathan Rochkind <rochkind_at_nyob>
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:56:33 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
On 3/28/2011 12:42 PM, Walker, David wrote:
> I know VUFind also has code for Summon, and maybe also Blacklight?  I know of a few other smaller projects doing this as well.  You may get more responses to this question on the code4lib listserv.

Last I heard/saw, VuFind only provided Summon results in a seperate tab, 
it didn't try to merge Summon results into the result set with local 
Solr results.

Has this changed?

Blacklight has nothing related to this, out of the box.

I am still very interested in people's actual real world experience with 
merging relevance ranked result sets from two different systems 
together. And encourage anyone that's done that succesfully to write it 
up somewhere, blog, code4lib journal, anywhere. Dave, is that what 
you're doing?

My worry is that it'll end up with all the terribleness of our existing 
federated broadcast search solutions (such as Metalib), since that's 
essentially what it is.
Received on Mon Mar 28 2011 - 12:57:07 EDT