er of the day. But that's what
computers allow us to do - adapt to users.
Peter
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> Steve Oberg
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Peter,
Use an search engine and create an aggregated database/index of all the
> material from the organization, or use a federated search system to
> search the repositories/catalogs/databases/etc. in real time? Did you
> consider both? And why the choice you made?
I was not involved in the ini
so why?
Peter Noerr
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> Renata and others,
&
Renata and others,
After posting my original reply I realized how dumb it was to respond but
say, sorry, can't tell you more. As an aside, this is one of the things
that irritates me the most about working in a for profit environment: the
control exerted by MPOW over just about anything. But hey,
Renata,
My library has done exactly this and we are in the second year of our
implementation. We are using an enterprise search product and incorporating
several disparate data repositories including a very large citation
database, our library catalog, a fileshare, and some other things
(basicall
Renata,
We haven't implemented anything yet, but we did recently issue an RFI
for exactly this and evaluated the vendors who responded. Our biggest
challenge is still getting sufficient institutional buy-in. So, we will
likely be conducting small, focused pilots with two different vendors.
I wo
Our organisation is looking into getting an enterprise search and I was
wondering how many libraries out there have incorporated library
collection into a 'federated' search that would retrieve a whole lot:
a library collection items, external sources (websites, databases),
internal documents (avai