On 6 May 2010 14:45, Jonathan Rochkind <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Theoretically, it sounds like Xerxes could maybe be rewritten to make
> PazPar2 an alternate metasearch engine, instead of Metalib as it uses now.
> The intended goal of Xerxes and PazPar2 complicate each other nicely and
> would work together well.

Yes, it's explicitly a design goal of pazpar2 that you can wire it in
as a metasearching back-end for any UI.  That's why it has no UI of
its own, only a web service.


>
> Just another one to add to the list of "cool things the library technology
> sector could do if only we had more developer time to do it."
>
> Jonathan
>
> Sebastian Hammer wrote:
>>
>> 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
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>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> --
>>>> David Kane
>>>> Systems Librarian
>>>> Waterford Institute of Technology
>>>> Ireland
>>>> http://library.wit.ie/
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>>>>
>>>>
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