The Open Discovery Initiative does focus on products such as Summon from
Serials Solutions, Primo Central from Ex Libris, EBSCO Discovery Service,
OCLC's or WorldCat Local. The defining characteristic involves reliance on
an index created by the discovery service provider based on content
represented in the e-journals, abstracting and indexing products,
aggregated content platforms and the like to which libraries subscribe as
well as open access resources. While there are lots of discovery layer
products available, ODI deals with the _index-based_ services.
More detailed information is available on the NISO Web site for the
workgroup: http://www.niso.org/workrooms/odi/
-marshall
(Co-chair along with Jenny Walker of ODI)
Marshall Breeding
marshall.breeding_at_librarytechnology.org
librarytechnology.org/
twitter.com/mbreeding
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[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Suzanne Pilsk
Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2012 5:28 AM
To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] NISO Open Discovery Initiative - survey
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 - 08:18:47 EDT