Federating multiple DSpace instances is critical to the mission of the Ohio Digital Resource Commons also. Even though we have centralized hosting, we decided on separate (virtual machine) instances to allow for greater local control by each institution. Our federated search is currently OAI-PMH based.
Here's a quick summary of the responses to John Preston's original message, with links. Would it make sense to create a Wiki page to bring together different approaches to federated search? -John Davison Ohio Digital Resource Commons http://drc.ohiolink.edu/ John Preston, investigating Carrot2 software: http://project.carrot2.org/ David Walker, California State University: http://xerxes.calstate.edu/ Stuart Yeates, Victoria University of Wellington: http://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/ Susan Thornton, NASA/Langley: internal search engine (Google) Robert Tansley, mentions HP Labs OAI-PMH content mirroring Dorothea Salo, suggests single instance with multiple collection branding Hayden Havercamp, suggests Yahoo! BOSS API: http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/ Claudia Jurgen, suggests pf-DSpace: http://hdl.handle.net/2160/281 Mark Wood, UIPUI: http://www.iupui.edu/ Ralph LeVan, OCLC Research SRW/SRU: http://code.google.com/p/oclcsrw/ Scott Phillips, Texas Digital Library ORE patch: http://repositories.tamu.edu/ John Davison, Ohio Digital Resource Commons: http://drc.ohiolink.edu/ John Preston wrote: > Does anyone know if any work is going on regarding federating a number > of DSpace instances so that the group could be considered as a single > DSpace instance for searching say. My use case has a number of DSpace > instances that are operated and maintained as individual instances. > When a user wishes to search for some information, then the search is > performed across all instances, and returns links to where the info > was found on the individual instance. > > John > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Create and Deploy Rich Internet Apps outside the browser with Adobe(R)AIR(TM) > software. With Adobe AIR, Ajax developers can use existing skills and code to > build responsive, highly engaging applications that combine the power of local > resources and data with the reach of the web. Download the Adobe AIR SDK and > Ajax docs to start building applications today-http://p.sf.net/sfu/adobe-com > _______________________________________________ > DSpace-tech mailing list > DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.233 / Virus Database: 270.10.19/1941 - Release Date: 02/09/09 > 06:50:00 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ DSpace-tech mailing list DSpace-tech@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dspace-tech
