Primo Central without Primo

Picking up a comment from an earlier post:



RE: "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."



So does this mean that, for a library without Primo to take advantage of Primo Central Index, the library will need to pre-harvest content (catalog, digital collections, IR, etc.) and merge results with those from Primo Central?  Doesn't it seem a lot of work?



Cheers,

Paoshan





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From:  David Friggens <[log in to unmask]<https://listserv.nd.edu/cgi-bin/wa?LOGON=A2%3Dind1103%26L%3DNGC4LIB%26D%3D0%26P%3D49289&Y=yue%40UNR.EDU>>

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> 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