Renata and others,

After posting my original reply I realized how dumb it was to respond but
say, sorry, can't tell you more.  As an aside, this is one of the things
that irritates me the most about working in a for profit environment: the
control exerted by MPOW over just about anything. But hey, this is the job
situation I've consciously chosen so, I guess I shouldn't complain.

Although I can't name names and go into detail about our implementation, I
have "anonymized" screenshots of various aspects of it and posted details
about it at
http://familymanlibrarian.com/2007/01/21/more-on-turning-the-catalog-inside-out/
Keep in mind that my involvement has been focused on the catalog side.  A
lot of the behind-the-scenes work also dealt with matching subject terms in
catalog records to the much simpler taxonomy chosen for our website.  You
can imagine that it can be quite complicated to set up a good rule set for
matching LCSH or MeSH terms effectively to a more generic set of taxonomy
terms and have those be meaningful to end users. We are continually
evaluating and tweaking this setup.

As far as other general details, this implementation involved a lot of
people, in fact a team of about 15, some more directly and exclusively and
others peripherally.  In terms of maintenance, day to day maintenance is
handled by about three FTE.  Our library catalog data is refreshed once a
day, as is the citation database to which I referred in the previous email,
and content from our web content management environment.  A few other
repositories are updated weekly because their content isn't as volatile.
The whole planning and implementation process took a year and is still
really working through implementation issues. For example we recently
upgraded the version of our enterprise search tool to a newer version and
this was a major change requiring a lot of resources and it took a lot more
time to do than expected.

I hope this additional information is helpful.

Steve

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 1:11 AM, Dyer, Renata <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:

> Our organisation is looking into getting an enterprise search and I was
> wondering how many libraries out there have incorporated library
> collection into a 'federated' search that would retrieve a whole lot:
> a library collection items, external sources (websites, databases),
> internal documents (available on share drives and/or records systems),
> maybe even records from other internal applications, etc.?
>
>
> I would like to hear about your experience and what is good or bad about
> it.
>
> Please reply on or offline whichever more convenient.
>
> I'll collate answers.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Renata Dyer
> Systems Librarian
> Information Services
> The Treasury
> Langton Crescent, Parkes ACT 2600 Australia
> (p) 02 6263 2736
> (f) 02 6263 2738
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