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Sorry, but, "me too!"

Rob

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Mike Taylor wrote:

> I, and most of the people I've worked with, have been using the terms
> "metasearch", "federated search", "broadcast search" and "distributed
> search" synonymously for years.  Have they now settled down into
> having distinct meanings?  If anyone could summarise, I'd be grateful.
>
> _/|_ ___________________________________________________________________
> /o ) \/  Mike Taylor    <[log in to unmask]>    
http://www.miketaylor.org.uk
> )_v__/\  "Sorry if my English didn't good enough to well explain my 
idea"
>                 -- Ronachai Pratanaphon.
>
>
>
> Yitzchak Schaffer writes:
> > Andrew Nagy wrote:
> > > Summon is really more than an NGC as we are selling it as a service 
- a
> > > unified discovery service.  This means that it is a single 
repository of the
> > > library's content ( subscription content, catalog records, IR data, 
etc.).
> > > Federated search is not apart of Summon
> >
> > Well, if we understand "federated" to mean "bringing stuff together by
> > searching all of it at once," then it is, as opposed to "broadcast
> > searching," a term you used later in this sentence.  As in, "Origin:
> > 1665?75; < L foeder?tus leagued together, allied, equiv. to foeder-
> > (nom. s. foedus) league" from
> > http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=federated
> >
> > It is, though, a great *breakthrough* in the area of federated search,
> > which is why we ordered an onsite demo immediately on hearing about 
this
> > product.
> >
> > 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
> >
> > --
> > Yitzchak Schaffer
> > Systems Manager
> > Touro College Libraries
> > 33 West 23rd Street
> > New York, NY 10010
> > Tel (212) 463-0400 x5230
> > Fax (212) 627-3197
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