The applications that David mentions are federated or meta search packages that can search external targets that return search results in DublinCore, or any other XML format.
David's comment is interesting because highlights another application of WattJournals: enabling customised localised versions of JournalTOCs to be targets of meta searchers.
At the moment we haven't prepared WattJournals to be searched by a meta search application, although we are working with the University Library to include WattJournals in their federated search service Search50 (WebFeat). Doing that would be easy because JournalTOCs has already an API returning results in DC and RSS formats. In that sense, yes a localised version of JournalTOCs such as WattJournals can be a searchable target for LibraryFind, DBWhiz, Pazpar2 and any other meta search package that supports DC or RSS formats.
WattJournals is solely based on the JournalTOCs toolkit.
Santy
JournalTOCs Project Manager
http://www.journaltocs.hw.ac.uk
> David Kane <[log in to unmask]> wrote
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> Hi Roddy,
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> Thanks for the post. I never knew about the TOC services/projects that you
> mentioned. I was also unaware of the WattJournals softare.
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> There are three other open-source library meta-search engines that I am
> aware of. These are LibraryFind, DBWhiz, and Pazpar2.
>
> Can these packages use the TOC services like WattJournals, I wonder? Or,
> is
> WattJournals in fact based on one of these frameworks?
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> David.
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