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State of the Art: Federated Search Engines

State of the Art: Federated Search Engines. ICOLC April 13, 2005. Federated Search hype, circa 2003. The correct solution for unifying access to a variety of information resources. - Roy Tennant, Library Journal, 6/15/2003

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State of the Art: Federated Search Engines

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  1. State of the Art: Federated Search Engines ICOLC April 13, 2005

  2. Federated Search hype, circa 2003 • The correct solution for unifying access to a variety of information resources. - Roy Tennant, Library Journal, 6/15/2003 • Metasearch technology creates a portal that could allow the library to become the one-stop shop their users find so attractive. - Judy Luther, Library Journal, 10/1/2003

  3. Federated Search obits, 2005 • 2005 is the year that will be remembered (in the library world) as the year federated searching became obsolete. - JAF, The Digital Librarian, 2/23/2005 • How quickly things can change! Last year there were discussions about the Google-busting potential of metasearch. How naive. This year there are discussions about the metasearch-busting potential of Google Scholar. - Lorcan Dempsey, 3/20/2005

  4. Michigan eLibrary • State library funded, through LSTA • Access to databases since 1997 • Gale, OCLC, ProQuest, LearningExpress, NetLibrary • Digitized resources • Union catalog • Gateway

  5. Component Software • INN-Reach • Metafind • Webridge

  6. Metafind • Contract signed May 2004 • Software design Fall 2004 • Preview Release January 2005 (www.mel.org) • Official launch scheduled for June 2005

  7. What We’ve Learned • Usual complaints • Deduping is inadequate • Relevance ranking is problematic • Slow to return results • Results sorted by database • Results confuse users

  8. What We’ve Learned • Control issues • Interface design is hard, especially in multitype library environment • Can’t out-Google Google • Targeted portals may be a better option

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