Library Cataloging
The archived version of Defining Web-Scale Discovery: The Promise of a Unified Search Index for Libraries is now available.
- Open Discovery Initiative Survey Report
National Information Standards Organization's Open Discovery Initiative Working Group has released the results of a survey they conducted recently, ODI Survey Report: Reflections and Perspectives on Discovery Services. The Open Discovery Initiative...
- Search Engines And Resource Discovery On The Web
Search Engines and Resource Discovery on the Web: Is Dublin Core an Impact Factor? by Mehdi Safari appears in Webology 2(2).This study evaluates the effectiveness of the Dublin Core metadata elements on the retrieval of web pages in a suite of six search...
- Oai Capture By Search Engines
Search Engine Coverage of the OAI-PMH Corpus by Frank McCown, Xiaoming Liu, Michael L. Nelson, and Mohammad Zubair has been submitted to IEEE Internet Computing.The major search engines are competing to index as much of the Web as possible. Having indexed...
- Searching
An Introduction to the Search/Retrieve URL Service (SRU) by Eric Lease Morgan appears in the latest Ariadne.This article is an introduction to the "brother and sister" Web Service protocols named Search/Retrieve Web Service (SRW) and Search/Retrieve URL...
- Z39.50
OASIS has released a position paper and is seeking comments. Search Service Interoperability edited by Eliot Christian.Governments are recommended to enhance interoperability among their networked systems by adopting a common search service. The search...
Library Cataloging
Search and Discovery
The archived version of Defining Web-Scale Discovery: The Promise of a Unified Search Index for Libraries is now available.
?Why can?t I search the library the way Google searches the Web??Librarians have been fielding that question for more than a decade as popular general search engines have set new expectations for service, searching and responsiveness. The complexity of multiple formats and the sheer scale of library collections have proven formidable barriers to simple, speedy, single search box interfaces. However, a new technology called a unified search index?the core of the groundbreaker Summon web-scale discovery service?offers the promise of answering that question with ?You can.?Join us for an insightful panel discussion that explores the emerging framework of web-scale discovery and what distinguishes the unified search index from existing library technologies. Expert panelists Marshall Breeding and Eric Lease Morgan will define the unified search index, as well as web-scale discovery ? both their mechanics and their impact on library users. This intriguing discussion will examine the library?s new ally in taking back its role as the starting point for research and exposing the expanse of its content riches.
Panelists:
Marshall Breeding, Director for Innovative Technologies and Research for the Jean and Alexander Heard Library at Vanderbilt University
Eric Lease Morgan, Head of the Digital Access and Information Architecture Department, University Libraries of Notre Dame
Moderator:
Andrew Nagy, Senior Discovery Services Engineer, Serials Solutions
- Open Discovery Initiative Survey Report
National Information Standards Organization's Open Discovery Initiative Working Group has released the results of a survey they conducted recently, ODI Survey Report: Reflections and Perspectives on Discovery Services. The Open Discovery Initiative...
- Search Engines And Resource Discovery On The Web
Search Engines and Resource Discovery on the Web: Is Dublin Core an Impact Factor? by Mehdi Safari appears in Webology 2(2).This study evaluates the effectiveness of the Dublin Core metadata elements on the retrieval of web pages in a suite of six search...
- Oai Capture By Search Engines
Search Engine Coverage of the OAI-PMH Corpus by Frank McCown, Xiaoming Liu, Michael L. Nelson, and Mohammad Zubair has been submitted to IEEE Internet Computing.The major search engines are competing to index as much of the Web as possible. Having indexed...
- Searching
An Introduction to the Search/Retrieve URL Service (SRU) by Eric Lease Morgan appears in the latest Ariadne.This article is an introduction to the "brother and sister" Web Service protocols named Search/Retrieve Web Service (SRW) and Search/Retrieve URL...
- Z39.50
OASIS has released a position paper and is seeking comments. Search Service Interoperability edited by Eliot Christian.Governments are recommended to enhance interoperability among their networked systems by adopting a common search service. The search...