Federated Search: Growing Your Own Tools

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Federated Search: Growing Your Own Tools Laura Solomon Library Services Manager Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN) [email_address] www.oplin.org
databases
databases
databases = Ohio Web Library
A need for federated searching
Federated search since 2004
Ohio public librarians dissatisfied
First steps
Pazpar2
- Record merging
- Relevance ranking
- Record sorting
- Faceted results
First feedback
Fitting the pieces together
Still need a piece!
Launch date set
Making it user-friendly http://www.bugbash.net/comic/7.html
We added:
- Stripping entries for problem characters
- Specific search categories
- A “searching” progress bar
- Spell check
All the pieces:
- (Customized) pazpar2 engine
- OpenTranslators
- Yahoo spellchecker API
- EZProxy
- Custom page design
- Custom scripting
Results
Never done
http:// www.ohioweblibrary.org
Questions?
- Laura Solomon
- Library Services Manager
- Ohio Public Library Information Network (OPLIN)
- [email_address]
- www.ohioweblibrary.org