> But I don't think I was clear with my question in any case; it occurs to me > now that my true question wasn't code-related, but seeing Summon on the conf > agenda prompted me to bring it up here. Namely: has anyone investigated > whether the arrangements SerSol has with content vendors are easily > duplicable by institutions for home-baked/potential OSS products > It's a relationship, so anything is possible. But "easily"? That would depend on who was doing it. I also agree that "federated search" doesn't suit Summon well. The natively-indexed content is key. -- -- | Karen G. Schneider | Community Librarian | Equinox Software Inc. "The Evergreen Experts" | Toll-free: 1.877.Open.ILS (1.877.673.6457) x712 | [log in to unmask] | Web: http://www.esilibrary.com | Be a part of the Evergreen International Conference, May 20-22, 2009! | http://www.lyrasis.org/evergreen