Showing posts with label Federated searching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Federated searching. Show all posts

Friday, 23 November 2007

Federated searching

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Hi all,

As we want to make it easier for people to access, search and retrieve from our Gulliver and BRUCE resources, we are currently experimenting with federated searching for our online databases.

We have set up a free trial for WebFeat, which has been customised to our resources. It's still a bit raw, but I'd like people to give it a go, give it some thought and then give some feedback (verbal, email, blog comments, whatever). Note that we can add more categories and change some of the other display settings.

An alternate product is 360 Search. We don't have a live trial for this, but you can access the Yarra Plenty Regional Library Service live version of this using the following ID and password:

Username: 10235000
PIN: bess

Please let us know what you think about the two and which product you would pick. Also, if you are familiar with any other federated searching options, please let me know about those too.

Glenn