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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 foederātus 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 Email [log in to unmask] Twitter /torahsyslib