Hey guys,

It's a bit of an apples and oranges thing. Pazpar2 is not, technically 
speaking, trying to be a complete metasearch application on its own. 
We're a toolkit shop: Pazpar2 is an attempt to package the core logic of 
a metasearch system into a piece of middleware with a WSAPI. It can 
broadcast searches (SRU/SRW/Z39.50), normalize results, do 
deduplication, ranking, facets, sorting, etc., all in a fairly 
data-model agnostic way, and fast. It can be configured using static XML 
files, or dynamically using the WSAPI. Someone using the JS client-side 
library and simple UI example that comes with the kit can build a pretty 
nifty metasearcher.

It's used by a variety of commercial and OSS projects in different ways. 
<crass_commercialism>We have a variety of other services and tools that 
work with Pazpar2 to provide higher-order functionality, like a 
web-based admin console (with its own underlying WSAPI), a substantial 
library of database profiles, and a connector technology for hitting 
HTML-based interfaces, etc.</crass_commercialism>. With everything we 
do, the focus is on modularity and flexibility, so the folks we work 
with tend to be vendors, consortia, or libraries that are looking for a 
'project' approach to creating a more custom-fitted kind of discovery 
system.

Folks looking for something that just works out of the box are probably 
better off looking elsewhere. I'm somewhat envious of people who make 
those kinds of systems, but it's not for me.. I like making tools for 
coders.

--Sebastian

On 5/5/10 1:18 PM, Karen Coombs wrote:
> All three search for articles. When I last spoke to the IndexData staff in
> December they were continuing work on Pazpar2. Its in my opinion the most
> complicated to implement from a configuration perspective but its being used
> a at least 3-5 projects that I know of. Perhaps someone from IndexData could
> provide more information.
>
> Karen
>
> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:53 AM, David Kane<[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>
>> Thanks Karen,
>>
>> My understanding is that Dbwiz is no longer being supported, or something,
>> which is unfortunate.
>>
>> Do all of these do article-level search?
>>
>> David.
>>
>> On 5 May 2010 16:25, Karen Coombs<[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>>
>>> David,
>>>
>>> There is also Pazpar2 from IndexData - http://www.indexdata.com/pazpar2
>>>
>>> and dBWiz (which is pretty old) - http://dbwiz.lib.sfu.ca/dbwiz/
>>>
>>> We implemented LibraryFind and used it for several years at University of
>>> Houston. I left there in January and think that they were looking at
>> other
>>> options like Summon.
>>>
>>> Karen
>>>
>>> On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:52 AM, David Kane<[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> Anyone got any suggestions?
>>>>
>>>> I am liking LibraryFind at the moment, but am not sure if anyone is
>> using
>>>> it.  Has anyone else got experience with this or any other federated
>>> search
>>>> programs?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>
>>>> David.
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> David Kane
>>>> Systems Librarian
>>>> Waterford Institute of Technology
>>>> Ireland
>>>> http://library.wit.ie/
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>>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> David Kane
>> Systems Librarian
>> Waterford Institute of Technology
>> Ireland
>> http://library.wit.ie/
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>> T: ++353.51302838
>> M: ++353.876693212
>>
>


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