Hey guys,
It's a bit of an apples and oranges thing. Pazpar2 is not, technically
speaking, trying to be a complete metasearch application on its own.
We're a toolkit shop: Pazpar2 is an attempt to package the core logic of
a metasearch system into a piece of middleware with a WSAPI. It can
broadcast searches (SRU/SRW/Z39.50), normalize results, do
deduplication, ranking, facets, sorting, etc., all in a fairly
data-model agnostic way, and fast. It can be configured using static XML
files, or dynamically using the WSAPI. Someone using the JS client-side
library and simple UI example that comes with the kit can build a pretty
nifty metasearcher.
It's used by a variety of commercial and OSS projects in different ways.
<crass_commercialism>We have a variety of other services and tools that
work with Pazpar2 to provide higher-order functionality, like a
web-based admin console (with its own underlying WSAPI), a substantial
library of database profiles, and a connector technology for hitting
HTML-based interfaces, etc.</crass_commercialism>. With everything we
do, the focus is on modularity and flexibility, so the folks we work
with tend to be vendors, consortia, or libraries that are looking for a
'project' approach to creating a more custom-fitted kind of discovery
system.
Folks looking for something that just works out of the box are probably
better off looking elsewhere. I'm somewhat envious of people who make
those kinds of systems, but it's not for me.. I like making tools for
coders.
--Sebastian
On 5/5/10 1:18 PM, Karen Coombs wrote:
All three search for articles. When I last spoke to the IndexData staff in
December they were continuing work on Pazpar2. Its in my opinion the most
complicated to implement from a configuration perspective but its being used
a at least 3-5 projects that I know of. Perhaps someone from IndexData could
provide more information.
Karen
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:53 AM, David Kane<[email protected]> wrote:
Thanks Karen,
My understanding is that Dbwiz is no longer being supported, or something,
which is unfortunate.
Do all of these do article-level search?
David.
On 5 May 2010 16:25, Karen Coombs<[email protected]> wrote:
David,
There is also Pazpar2 from IndexData - http://www.indexdata.com/pazpar2
and dBWiz (which is pretty old) - http://dbwiz.lib.sfu.ca/dbwiz/
We implemented LibraryFind and used it for several years at University of
Houston. I left there in January and think that they were looking at
other
options like Summon.
Karen
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 10:52 AM, David Kane<[email protected]> wrote:
Anyone got any suggestions?
I am liking LibraryFind at the moment, but am not sure if anyone is
using
it. Has anyone else got experience with this or any other federated
search
programs?
Thanks in advance,
David.
--
David Kane
Systems Librarian
Waterford Institute of Technology
Ireland
http://library.wit.ie/
[email protected]
T: ++353.51302838
M: ++353.876693212
--
David Kane
Systems Librarian
Waterford Institute of Technology
Ireland
http://library.wit.ie/
[email protected]
T: ++353.51302838
M: ++353.876693212
--
Sebastian Hammer, Index Data
[email protected]
www.indexdata.com
