Federated Search in an Age of Web Services

Newton, Glen and Fortin, Michael Federated Search in an Age of Web Services., 2005 . In Access 2005 (2005 : Edmonton), Edmonton, Alberta (Canada), 17 - 19 October 2005. [Presentation]

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Federated Search has long been an elusive goal of the library community. Traditionally, Z39.50 tools offered the ability to perform federated searches across library catalogues and other metadata repositories. Now, with the explosion of Web Services and their associated flexibility, the creation of innovative Federated-type searching is made possible. We will discuss these issues, and present an Open Source prototype which uses Z39.50, Web Services, and REST to query a number of databases, including the CISTI catalogue, PubMed, and Amazon. This prototype also allows users to purchase books from Amazon and view full-text articles from PubMed and via CISTI's link resolver.

Item type:	Presentation
Keywords:	federated search, Web services, Z29.50, AJAX, Amazon, Catalog, Content Management System, REST, Web
Subjects:	L. Information technology and library technology > LS. Search engines. L. Information technology and library technology > LK. Software methodologies and engineering. L. Information technology and library technology > LC. Internet, including WWW. H. Information sources, supports, channels. > HM. OPACs. I. Information treatment for information services > IF. Information transfer: protocols, formats, techniques. L. Information technology and library technology > LR. OPAC systems.
Depositing user:	Glen Newton
Date deposited:	06 Aug 2006
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:04
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/7887

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