Hello Gunter, At present MWeb Universal sorts alphabetically by the brief name of the database, subsorted by the type of content. Ranking is a good idea and we will add it to a future release.
Thanks for the suggestion! Stephen - Stephen Toney Systems Planning toney at systemsplanning.com http://systemsplanning.com MWeb, CAPS, MARCView, and MARConvert are trademarks of Systems Planning On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 11:29 -0400, Waibel,Guenter wrote: > Hi Stephen, > > How do you deal with ranking search results from various sources? > > The Baltimore example seems to side-step ranking. It displays hits segregated > by database. > > Cheers, > > G?nter > > -----Original Message----- > From: mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu [mailto:mcn-l-bounces at mcn.edu] On Behalf Of > Stephen Toney > Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 7:03 AM > To: Chuck Patch > Cc: Museum Computer Network Listserv > Subject: Re: [MCN-L] MWeb Universal > > > On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 09:57 -0400, Chuck Patch wrote: > > Hi Stephen, > > > > This is really interesting. ... looks like you are inches away from > > being able to create a PastPerfect Consortium. > > > Thanks, Chuck, > > Actually MWeb Universal can do that now. Try > http://searchbaltimore.pastperfect-online.com > to search a consortium of three Baltimore museums. > > The current release is suitable for consortia of any museums, not just > PastPerfect sites, since it can search any CMSs or databases without > exporting, FTPing or Z39.50. > > MWeb Universal has been tested with 50 databases at once. > > Thanks! > Stephen > - > Stephen Toney > Systems Planning > toney at systemsplanning.com > http://systemsplanning.com > > MWeb, CAPS, MARCView, and MARConvert are trademarks of Systems Planning > > > > _______________________________________________ > You are currently subscribed to mcn-l, the listserv of the Museum Computer > Network (http://www.mcn.edu) > > To post to this list, send messages to: mcn-l at mcn.edu > > To unsubscribe or change mcn-l delivery options visit: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/mailman/listinfo/mcn-l > > The MCN-L archives can be found at: > http://toronto.mediatrope.com/pipermail/mcn-l/ > >
