Eric,

How is this 'new type' of index any different from an index of OAI-PMH 
harvested material?  Which in turn is no different from any other local 
search, just a different method of ingesting the data?

Sounds like good PR to me, rather than a revolution ;)

Rob

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
> On Apr 21, 2009, at 10:40 AM, 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

> But I believe we are also seeing a new type of index manifesting
> itself, and this new index has yet to be named. Specifically, I'm
> thinking of the index where various types of content is aggregated
> into a single index and then queried. For example, instead of
> providing a federated search against one or more library catalogs, a
> Z39.50 accessible journal article index, a local cache of harvested
> OAI content, etc., I think we are beginning to see all of these
> content silos (and others) brought together into a single (Solr/
> Lucene) index and searched simultaneously. I'm not sure, but I think
> this is how Summon works.