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Totally agreed. Just reading through those email and feel we might off the topic. If we want to go from location A to location B. There are so many choice: take bus, taxi, rent a car, buy a car, buy a leisure car, buy a air ticket, rent a helicopter, or even buy your own aircraft. I would more recommend to see what you really need (Requirement), how many budget do you have (Resource) and start from there. BTW, here are some my opinions: - If you do not have a solid technical development team, please don't choose open source. - If you do not have a powerful budget, there is no need to compare with big organizations. - Subscription service becomes more an more popular, it is worth to take a look. Hope it helps. -- Jing Xiao Senior Programmer L-1005, System, QEII Library Memorial University, St. John's, NL, A1B 3Y1 On 9/20/2012 1:19 PM, Sean Hannan wrote: > Every one of these sites is not going to work for everyone. > > Please conduct your own user research for your own audience. > > Our users, for example, have no interest in visualizations of search > results. > > Our researchers actually want just a list of results. They are compiling > bibliographies or reading lists and they honestly just want a really long > page of titles and authors of what we have. > > -Sean > > On 9/20/12 11:03 AM, "Karen Coyle" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > >> Every one of this suggestions has one major flaw, IMO. The primary >> result of a search is a big set of bibliographic records -- more than >> the user can possible look through. In some of them there are facets >> available, but in no case is there any useful analysis of set in a >> visualization that would allow the user to get a picture of what she has >> retrieved. I'm thinking timelines, a la' WorldCat Identities or the Open >> Library subject pages [1]. Also, none of them tell the user more about >> the person or subject or work that they have retrieved. (At least, in >> the views that I have seen.) I really think that lists of manifestations >> just aren't good enough when searches bring up hundreds of results. >> >> kc >> [1] some examples: >> http://openlibrary.org/subjects/halley%27s_comet >> http://openlibrary.org/subjects/place:istanbul_%28turkey%29 >> and see others at: http://openlibrary.org/subjects >> or look for your favorites >> >> >> On 9/20/12 6:03 AM, Hamilton, Gill wrote: >>> My current fav is Digital NZ >>> http://www.digitalnz.org/ >>> >>> Gill >>> ---------------------------------- >>> Gill Hamilton >>> Digital Access Manager >>> National Library of Scotland >>> Edinburgh, Scotland >>> [log in to unmask] >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of >>> Tania Fersenheim >>> Sent: 19 September 2012 20:00 >>> To: [log in to unmask] >>> Subject: [CODE4LIB] Seeking examples of outstanding discovery layers >>> >>> Got a favorite discovery interface? Send me the URL >>> >>> I am doing some quick & dirty investigation into libraries that have >>> successfully and elegantly integrated discovery of various resources, >>> e.g.: >>> >>> - library catalog >>> - federated indexing service such as Serials Solutions or Primo >>> Central, or a federated search system like Metalib >>> - ejournals >>> - ebooks >>> - libguides >>> - library web site >>> - worldcat local >>> - that kind o' stuff >>> >>> I am looking for sites that are both nice to look at and seem easy to >>> use. I will assume that if you're touting your own site it is >>> technologically sophisticated. :-D Got any faves? >>> >>> Tania >>> This electronic communication is governed by the terms and conditions at http://www.mun.ca/cc/policies/electronic_communications_disclaimer_2012.php