You want to use the Google CSE interface. Have a look at
www.macworld.com - the search is limited to a list of sites that is
defined by the administrator.
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Les
On 22 May 2007, at 12:38, Riley Fred wrote:
> I'm not sure if this is the right list to post this query to as
> most of
> the discussion on here seems to be about higher-level issues, so if
> this
> is too 'tech' please let me know where it should be posted. I'm trying
> to find out if there are any tools in existence which a web developer
> could use to put a OAI-PMH harvester on a site, so that the site users
> could search specific repositories without leaving the safety and
> comfort of the site. Basically a sort of 'meta-search' engine
> interface
> integrated seamlessly into a site. Plainly there are harvesters out
> there, such as the marvellous OAIster, but the punters have to
> travel to
> those sites to use them. The tool I'm looking for would allow the
> developer to specify particular repositories with OAI-PMH services,
> and
> allow the end-user to query them without having to go to the
> repository
> itself and thus have to familiarise themselves with a new interface.
>
> I've had a hunt around for this sort of thing lately and I don't think
> it exists, but I figure that if such a thing does exist then folk on
> here are most likely to know about it ;-). I've had a look on the OAI
> tools list at http://www.openarchives.org/pmh/tools/tools.php but
> although there are plenty of useful Perl, Java and PHP libraries which
> developers can use to develop OAI search tools, there's nothing
> 'ready-rolled' as far as I can see. TIA for any answers.
>
> Cheers
>
> Fred
>
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