Dirk
Thanks for that. I have just checked out the search for Germany and indeed it performs as it should. There is clearly a need to have a directory of these country-specific search facilities, unless BASE can indeed do a map-based or ISO-code country search.
I add that I personally don't find country-specific searches of much use to me (I am a computer scientist after all with a usual need for global knowledge not country-specific). But I acknowledge that some people do find them useful when searching for governance issues, flora and fauna, and similar things. It took me just over an hour to create a custom search for another country than Australia, so it is really easy to do.
Can I ask that you provide your list of searched repositories as a downloadable .csv file (or send it to me as one) as it is pretty useless as it is on the web except for doing a search for a particular place. I know I can highlight a specific country code but this make analysis very time consuming. I have my suspicions about your coverage of Australian repositories, and I know that a single country in Africa has more repositories than you list for the whole of Africa. If I can extract all the Australian entries (and the New Zealand ones too) I can perhaps assist you by providing extra URLs.
Thanks for your response and best wishes from far-off and sunny Tasmania
Arthur Sale
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From: Repositories discussion list [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Dirk Pieper
Sent: Saturday, 7 March 2009 12:21 AM
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Subject: Re: AuseSearch
Dear Arthur,
you asked for similar facilities. The "BASE-Advanced-Search"
(http://www.base-search.net/index.php?i=a ) offers the possibility to
restrict your search for example to german repositories only. Today I find
1,582,527 documents from german repositories, which are almost completely
indexed in BASE.
We are currently preparing a country wide search service, which means, that we
are simply matching the location of a repository to a new field in our index.
Together with an already existing BASE API, which gives third party
applications the possibilty to run queries againts the BASE index according
to CQL-Standard and get back data in XML, you will be able to build your own
search interface (without advertising ;-) ...). Please contact me, if you are
interested, almost all registered australian repositories should be in BASE
too. It could be also possible, to start country queries from a repository
map like
http://base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/en/about_sources_map.php?menu=2&submenu=1
A BASE search box is as simple as that
<form action="http://www.base-search.net/index.php" method="get"
accept-charset="UTF-8">
<input maxlength="1024" name="q" type="text" size="40" />
<input value="Search!" type="submit" />
<input value="all" name="s" type="hidden" />
</form>
A form only for german repositories
<form action="http://www.base-search.net/index.php" method="get"
accept-charset="UTF-8">
<input maxlength="1024" name="q" type="text" size="40" />
<input value="Search!" type="submit" />
<input value="all" name="s" type="hidden" />
<input type="hidden" name="s[de_eu_ww][ ]" id="de_eu_ww_de" value="de" />
</form>
You can also create forms including the additional use of lemmatizing or
multilingual search ...
Kind regards
Dirk
