Comments on: Open Source Federated Search Tools http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2006/03/13/open-source-federated-search-tools/ Resources for librarians who are interested in the application of web design and technologies in libraries Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:10:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Karen http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2006/03/13/open-source-federated-search-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-62531 Karen Wed, 04 Jun 2008 00:26:36 +0000 http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2006/03/13/open-source-federated-search-tools/#comment-62531 Mck, Thanks for you comment. It is nice to know about some of the metasearch technologies out there for general web searching. This post is focused more on federated searching for library databases and catalog. This data isn't indexable or searchable by normal web search engines. At least not most of the time, there are a few exceptions where libraries have cobbled together support for OpenSearch as part of their catalog. Mck,
Thanks for you comment. It is nice to know about some of the metasearch technologies out there for general web searching. This post is focused more on federated searching for library databases and catalog. This data isn’t indexable or searchable by normal web search engines. At least not most of the time, there are a few exceptions where libraries have cobbled together support for OpenSearch as part of their catalog.

]]> By: Mck http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2006/03/13/open-source-federated-search-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-62518 Mck Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:59:27 +0000 http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2006/03/13/open-source-federated-search-tools/#comment-62518 Sesat is an open sourced Search Middleware with federation capabilities and a built-in search portal framework. Sesat enables a single user query to be dispatched to multiple information sources. The result is analysed, weighted and presented to the user according to configurable business rules. Sesat is an open sourced Search Middleware with federation capabilities and a built-in search portal framework. Sesat enables a single user query to be dispatched to multiple information sources. The result is analysed, weighted and presented to the user according to configurable business rules.

]]> By: Calvin Mah http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2006/03/13/open-source-federated-search-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-1269 Calvin Mah Mon, 13 Mar 2006 23:10:05 +0000 http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2006/03/13/open-source-federated-search-tools/#comment-1269 I'm the lead developer on the dbWiz project at Simon Fraser University. We are currently very close to having a "straight forward to install" package for dbWiz. While you are free to download the code that is currently available, I do urge you to wait a couple of weeks while the install package is ready (along with a bunch of documentataion) I’m the lead developer on the dbWiz project at Simon Fraser University. We are currently very close to having a “straight forward to install” package for dbWiz.

While you are free to download the code that is currently available, I do urge you to wait a couple of weeks while the install package is ready (along with a bunch of documentataion)

]]> By: Jay Datema http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2006/03/13/open-source-federated-search-tools/comment-page-1/#comment-1268 Jay Datema Mon, 13 Mar 2006 20:55:00 +0000 http://www.librarywebchic.net/wordpress/2006/03/13/open-source-federated-search-tools/#comment-1268 Keystone looks interesting, especially it's made by the company behind the open source Z server used in Koha and other open source products. Keystone looks interesting, especially it’s made by the company behind the open source Z server used in Koha and other open source products.

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