Re: NISO Open Discovery Initiative - survey

From: Suzanne Pilsk <suzanne.pilsk_at_nyob>
Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 06:28:08 -0400
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
i was thinking it was services like Serial Solutions' Summons.

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On Sep 11, 2012, at 10:00 PM, Eric Lease Morgan <emorgan_at_ND.EDU> wrote:

> Reading out of context, it seems to me that "discovery system" is a fancy term for an index of (library) content; technically speaking, all of the "discovery systems" are based on variations of Lucene or Solr -- indexers as opposed to databases. They are tools for finding as opposed to tools used to determine what a library owns -- inventory systems. "Discovery systems" are also tools that have put Web 2.0 features on bibliographic data. They are an incremental evolution of the venerable library catalog. --ELM
Received on Wed Sep 12 2012 - 06:29:06 EDT