> So, going back to the original topic of this thread.
:-) [I've been finding the side thread on ranking to be very
interesting and illuminating]
To add my two cents, I've found it interesting and a little surprising
to see that people are taking on the task of merging catalogue and
"discovery index" data themselves.
My institution/consortium chose Summon, and I've been quite glad that
they take on that work of merging our catalogue and repository results
along with their index. We're currently using their default interface,
but I'm open to using another interface to display the search/results
via the API.
I can understand that if you bought Primo Central without Primo you
would need to do result merging yourself, but at least with Summon and
EDS I would have thought it much easier and preferable to use the
combined results that those services provide in an alternative
interface.
Are people expecting that they can do much better by combining the
results themselves?
Cheers
David
Received on Mon Mar 28 2011 - 18:56:04 EDT