Hello list,
A student of a friend of mine made his masters on that topic, especially about
federated ranking.
I have copied his text here:
http://direct.hoplahup.net/tmp/FederatedRanking-Koblischke-2009.pdf
Feel free to contact me to contact Robert Koblischke for questions.
Paul
On 28 août 2013, at 20:35, Dan Davis wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 9:06 PM, Amit Jha <shanuu....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Would you like to create something like
>> http://knimbus.com
>>
>
> I work at the National Library of Medicine. We are moving our library
> catalog to a newer platform, and we will probably include articles. The
> article's content and meta-data are available from a number of web-scale
> discovery services such as PRIMO, Summon, EBSCO's EDS, EBSCO's "traditional
> API". Most libraries use open source solutions to avoid the cost of
> purchasing an expensive enterprise search platform. We are big; we
> already have a closed-source enterprise search engine (and our own home
> grown Entrez search used for PubMed). Since we can already do Federated
> Search with the above, I am evaluating the effort of adding such to Apache
> Solr. Because NLM data is used in the open relevancy project, we actually
> have the relevancy decisions to decide whether we have done a good job of
> it.
>
> I obviously think it would be "Fun" to add Federated Search to Apache Solr.
>
> *Standard disclosure *- my opinion's do not represent the opinions of NIH
> or NLM. "Fun" is no reason to spend tax-payer money. Enhancing Apache
> Solr would reduce the risk of "putting all our eggs in one basket." and
> there may be some other relevant benefits.
>
> We do use Apache Solr here for more than one other project... so keep up
> the good work even if my working group decides to go with the closed-source
> solution.
