What terms do you suggest, Mike?
I think we're doomed no matter what with these, after certain
communities started to use "federated search" and "metasearch" in
directly opposite ways.
I also was told recently that what is called an "accordion" in English
is called a "bandoneon" in Spanish, and what is called a "accordeon" in
Spanish is called a "bandoneon" in English.
Hope this helps.
Mike Taylor wrote:
On 18 May 2010 15:24, Ray Denenberg, Library of Congress <[email protected]> wrote:
There is no synchronous operation in SRU.
As for federated search .
To digress a moment, you may recall -- I believe it was on this list --
there was discussion (maybe a year ago?) of what that even means and whether
it is the same or differs from metasearch, whatever that means. That
discussion was inconclusive. Anyway, earlier drafts of SRU 2.0 describe a
metasearch model. Recently, the committee decided that the terms
"metasearch" and "federated search" are undefined jargon. We now choose to
call it "multi-server search".
Way to go. Introducting yet ANOTHER synonym can only help!
(And don't forget "broadcast search".)
