Jonathan's blog post refers to work at the University of Virginia
which was, at that time, in progress. It is now in production
(side-by-side search results) at:
http://search.lib.virginia.edu
Molly
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 3:07 PM, Jonathan Rochkind <rochkind_at_jhu.edu> wrote:
> On 8/31/2011 2:58 PM, Paoshan Yue wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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?
>
> A probably infeasible amount of work with less than satisfactory
> results--merging results from two different search engines at display-time
> is basically the traditional "broadcast federated search", and generally
> works not well at all. (And if you do want to do this, you could alternately
> buy Metalib, which comes with access to PrimoCentral-without-Primo, and is a
> broadcast federated search tool).
>
> But there are ways to use an aggregated index like Primo Central without
> merging result sets at all.
>
> You could simply search PrimoCentral as it is, as an aggregated article
> index, like Google Scholar or Scopus. (Perhaps it performs better in some
> way than the alternatives).
>
> Or could provide a search which gave PrimoCentral results and results from
> one or more other search engines side-by-side ("bento box style") instead of
> merged.
> http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2011/08/08/article-search-and-catalog-search/
>
>
>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Paoshan
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>>
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>> From: David Friggens<[log in to
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>> Subj: Re: [NGC4LIB] The next generation of discovery tools (new LJ
>> article)
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>> Date: Mon Mar 28, 2011 6.55 pm
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>>> So, going back to the original topic of this thread.
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>>
>> :-) [I've been finding the side thread on ranking to be very
>>
>> interesting and illuminating]
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>> 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.
>>
>>
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>> My institution/consortium chose Summon, and I've been quite glad that
>>
>> they take on that work of merging our catalogue and repository results
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>> along with their index. We're currently using their default interface,
>>
>> but I'm open to using another interface to display the search/results
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>> via the API.
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>>
>>
>> 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
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>> combined results that those services provide in an alternative
>>
>> interface.
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>>
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>> Are people expecting that they can do much better by combining the
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>> results themselves?
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>>
>>
>> Cheers
>> David
>>
>
Received on Wed Aug 31 2011 - 15:13:58 EDT