Sorry, but, me too!
Rob
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Mike Taylor wrote:
I, and most of the people I've worked with, have been using the terms
metasearch, federated search, broadcast search and distributed
search synonymously for years. Have they now settled down into
having distinct meanings? If
Eric,
How is this 'new type' of index any different from an index of OAI-PMH
harvested material? Which in turn is no different from any other local
search, just a different method of ingesting the data?
Sounds like good PR to me, rather than a revolution ;)
Rob
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Eric
On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, Eric Lease Morgan wrote:
On Apr 21, 2009, at 10:55 AM, Dr R. Sanderson wrote:
How is this 'new type' of index any different from an index of OAI-PMH
harvested material? Which in turn is no different from any other
local search, just a different method of ingesting the data
How does this compare to Zetoc at Mimas, which also provides RSS feeds
for journal ToCs?
Rob
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Boheemen, Peter van wrote:
This is great !!! But don't forget the API !
Peter
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Thanks Terry, a really good comparison!
One more that I came up with, in thinking about this slightly further
... ticTOCs is open to the public whereas ZETOC requires an
institutional login to access the data. A big plus on ticTOCs' side!
Rob
On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Bucknell, Terry wrote:
I guess I don't understand why you'd prefer SRU to an API. The ideal
Except SRU _is_ an API?
However, if there was no API available, only a SRU service, wouldn't
you complain about something else that SRU didn't do?
Like what? The current API seems to be concerned with search. Search
is
* built an API http://www.openlibrary.org/dev/docs/api to the data
which allows you to query the database for objects matching
particular criteria or to GET an object from the database
Not SRU? Any reasons why you rolled your own?
Rob
I'm the only non-techie on the team, so I don't know that much about
SRU. (Our head programmer lives in India, and is presumably asleep at
the moment, otherwise I'd ask him!) Is it an interface that is used
primarily by libraries? We are definitely hoping that our API will be
used by all
I shouldn't respond to such blatant trolling, but heh...
On Wed, 7 May 2008, Casey Durfee wrote:
SRU is crap, in my opinion -- overengineered and under-thought,
incomprehensible to non-librarians and burdened by the weight of history.
What is so incomprehensible about it? Is it the fact it
The intention of the scheme is to motivate open access journals to deliver
metadata to DOAJ. The DOAJ team will then convert the metadata into
standardized XML-format and OAI-compliant format, which will further
increase the visibility of articles and provide means for the easiest
possible
And Perl's fork() explained:
http://hell.jedicoder.net/?p=82
Enjoy :)
Rob
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008, Kevin S. Clarke wrote:
Hi Eric, you wrote:
How do I write a computer program that spawns many processes but
returns one result?
...
Is
the idea of threading in Java suppose to be able to
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