The NCSU Libraries is pleased to release its Virtual Shelf Browse application
and web service as open source software. Source code is available for viewing,
download, and checkout from Google Code under the MIT/X11 License. It includes
a back end web service for retrieving items in shelf order a
Agreed it is a problem. What MSSEs do (when operating this way) is make this
issue a response time dependent one. Users themselves make it a Source
dependent one (they only look at results from the sites they decide to search).
Ranking algorithms make it an algorithm dependent one (their algorit
> And if the majority of users are only looking at results
> from one resource... why do a broadcast multi-server
> search in the first place?
More than just a theoretical concern. Consider this from an article by Nina
McHale:
"[R]eference and instruction staff at Auraria were asked to draw u
Aha, but we get interleaved results from the different Sources. So the results
are not "all A", "all B", "all... Even if the results come as complete "sets of
10", we internally collect them asynchronously as they are processed. The
number of buffers and processing stages is quite large, so the
Since we generally return results asynchronously to client systems from our
MSSE (fed/meta/broadcast/aggregated/parallel/Multi-Server/Search Engine) I
would just point out that we use other protocols than SRU when doing so. When
we do use SRU on the client side, then we send back the results in
Wait, but in the case you suspect is common, where you return results as
soon as the first resource is returned, and subsequent results are added
to the _end_ of the list
I'm thinking that in most of these cases, the subsequent results will be
several pages "in", and the user will never ev
However things are a bit different now... At the risk of opening the debate
once more and lots of lengthy discussion let me say that our experience (as one
of the handful of commercial providers of "multi-server search engines" (MSSEs?
- it'll never stick, but I like it)) is:
1) Times are not
Apologies for cross-posting.
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How common is the kind of meta data mismatch* associated with this record?
http://openlibrary.org/books/OL23383343M/Cisco_Networking_Academy_Program
What is the point of contact for making corrections?
*The metadata is about Unix (2004), the Book is about Ben Franklin (1908)
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