Comments on: Library search as ’search portal’ http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/search-portal/ Gone to Croatoan Fri, 19 Mar 2010 05:05:39 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Auswahlbibliographie „Katalog 2.0″ « Katalog 2.0 http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/search-portal/#comment-4834 Auswahlbibliographie „Katalog 2.0″ « Katalog 2.0 Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:24:39 +0000 http://bibwild.wordpress.com/?p=141#comment-4834 [...] Jonathan: Library search as a „search portal“. Oktober [...] [...] Jonathan: Library search as a „search portal“. Oktober [...]

]]> By: rab http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/search-portal/#comment-2937 rab Wed, 22 Oct 2008 13:31:39 +0000 http://bibwild.wordpress.com/?p=141#comment-2937 We took a local index approach and have included some issues noted in the article. We have (as a start) included - our local catalog - journal holdings e and print - Open Access texts wordwide (with geoscientific subjects) - some local bibliographies - and RSS feed information on contents of current journal issues See http://waesearch.kobv.de/ It is Lucene as a technical base. We took a local index approach and have included some issues noted in the article.
We have (as a start) included
- our local catalog
- journal holdings e and print
- Open Access texts wordwide (with geoscientific subjects)
- some local bibliographies
- and RSS feed information on contents of current journal issues

See
http://waesearch.kobv.de/

It is Lucene as a technical base.

]]> By: jrochkind http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/search-portal/#comment-2924 jrochkind Tue, 07 Oct 2008 23:02:24 +0000 http://bibwild.wordpress.com/?p=141#comment-2924 Response time is definitely a huge issue. That most of our software fails at---even our OPACs that DO have local indexes generally have ridiculously slow response times. It's definitely an issue with broadcast search. I am trying to convince my fellow librarians at my place of work that if a particular resource being searched is so slow that it brings down the response time of the overall broadcast search, it should be dropped from the default search sets--no matter how useful it is. Tell the vendor to make it faster. They aren't agreeing. While the fastest broadcast search is still going to be slower than the fastest local index search, our current broadcast search is far from 'the fastest'. I think broadcast search can probably be fast enough. Some sources in my broadcast search return in a couple seconds. Others take 10 seconds or more. Response time is definitely a huge issue. That most of our software fails at—even our OPACs that DO have local indexes generally have ridiculously slow response times.

It’s definitely an issue with broadcast search. I am trying to convince my fellow librarians at my place of work that if a particular resource being searched is so slow that it brings down the response time of the overall broadcast search, it should be dropped from the default search sets–no matter how useful it is. Tell the vendor to make it faster. They aren’t agreeing.

While the fastest broadcast search is still going to be slower than the fastest local index search, our current broadcast search is far from ‘the fastest’. I think broadcast search can probably be fast enough. Some sources in my broadcast search return in a couple seconds. Others take 10 seconds or more.

]]> By: art http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/search-portal/#comment-2921 art Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:54:27 +0000 http://bibwild.wordpress.com/?p=141#comment-2921 UBC takes a neat linking approach called "OneSearch Links", see <a href="http://www.library.ubc.ca/" rel="nofollow">here</a>. As the parent of a 3rd year undergraduate with two more children poised to enter university, I don't think we can underestimate response time in defining a compelling search experience, I am constantly amazed by how often I hear everything the library offers is too slow, especially commercial databases. For better or for worse, google is often closer and faster to our user base than anything we provide. Broadcast searching, in particular, stumbles here, I often wish we could hammer out a common index format among our content and indexing suppliers, and use something like lucene as the basis for bringing together disparate indexes rather than introducing network latency into every interaction. UBC takes a neat linking approach called “OneSearch Links”, see here. As the parent of a 3rd year undergraduate with two more children poised to enter university, I don’t think we can underestimate response time in defining a compelling search experience, I am constantly amazed by how often I hear everything the library offers is too slow, especially commercial databases. For better or for worse, google is often closer and faster to our user base than anything we provide. Broadcast searching, in particular, stumbles here, I often wish we could hammer out a common index format among our content and indexing suppliers, and use something like lucene as the basis for bringing together disparate indexes rather than introducing network latency into every interaction.

]]> By: Fantasizing about federated search » Federated Search Blog http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/search-portal/#comment-2917 Fantasizing about federated search » Federated Search Blog Tue, 07 Oct 2008 04:35:24 +0000 http://bibwild.wordpress.com/?p=141#comment-2917 [...] Rochkind authors the Bibliographic Wilderness blog. Last Friday, Jonathan discussed some of the technical and other problems he saw with federated search today and he even created a [...] [...] Rochkind authors the Bibliographic Wilderness blog. Last Friday, Jonathan discussed some of the technical and other problems he saw with federated search today and he even created a [...]

]]> By: Library search as ’search portal’…10.06.08 « The Proverbial Lone Wolf Librarian’s Weblog http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/search-portal/#comment-2916 Library search as ’search portal’…10.06.08 « The Proverbial Lone Wolf Librarian’s Weblog Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:43:24 +0000 http://bibwild.wordpress.com/?p=141#comment-2916 [...] search as ’search portal’…10.06.08 6 10 2008 Interesting post [http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/search-portal/] on [...] [...] search as ’search portal’…10.06.08 6 10 2008 Interesting post [http://bibwild.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/search-portal/] on [...]

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