Category: Digital Libraries

  • LibraryFind (Metasearch) testing expanded

    I’m preparing some documents for our library faculty and staff as we begin expanding the beta testing to the entire library.  I make the next cutover from our development to semi-production server this Friday —  so barring any unforeseen problems or objections by the project team (good thing Jeremy is in New York till next…

  • LibraryFind (metasearch update)

    Its been a little bit since I updated folks on our metasearch development.  I’m including a current screenshot that shows the current look with a new function — inline OpenURL resolution.  As users scroll over the Find in library link, they see the openURL items show up directly in their window. So what’s been worked…

  • Sunny in Austin, TX

    I’m hanging out in Austin attending DLF’s Spring forum this weekend.  I’ll post my notes from the meeting at the end of each day — but if you are in Austin and want to say howdy, drop me a message.  –Terry

  • Making metasearch work for you

    Maybe I’ll write about this — maybe not.  I haven’t decided yet — but one of the benefits of rolling our own metasearch tool is that we get to try lots of new things.  Case in point.  Last night (this morning), I setup a multi-tier caching system into our metasearch tool.  Here’s how it works:…

  • More metasearch

    Apparently the Corvallis Gazette Times contacted Jeremy about our metasearch project.  Here’s the article URL: http://gazettetimes.com/articles/2006/03/31/news/community/friloc01.txt Cool beans. –Terry

  • MetaSearch Updates

    Just thought I’d post an update on our work since we have given the ok for our library administration to start internally testing the tool. API Development: Lets see, new enhancements to the API/backend server: New session manager.  This allows the software to capture and cache all user data over the life of a session…

  • Metasearch work

    Whew! It’s been a while since my last post. Busy, busy, busy. Well, I’ve got a few posts I’d like to make tonight, so lets start with OSU’s Metasearch development. I’ve been busy. New API for doing inline filtering, adding new metadata formats and then building sample XSLT transform types for our UI folks so…

  • Metasearch updates

    For those that have been interested and following development, I’ve completed the harvesting component of the Metasearch tool.  Basically, we are invisioning this tool as a hybrid search…we harvest as much data as we can but federate search when we have to.   Then we bring together the results and rank them within the context of…

  • Metasearch updates

    So we continue.  The program is obviously still very basic, but at least its starting to look nice in the various UI testbeds. 🙂 –Terry

  • OSU’s metasearch development

    Ah, finally…I can sit back and rest for a minute.  After a bit of hard work, I’ve finally been able to turn over code to the interface group.   As a test — I pulled together a very quick test interface. Group Interface (grouped and ranked) List Interface (ranked) Very simple — essentially 2 xslt files. …