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
> From: Repositories discussion list
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Arthur Sale
> Sent: Friday, March 06, 2009 6:19 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: AuseSearch
>
>
>
> Some of you will know of AuseSearch but most won't. AuseSearch is a custom
> search engine operated by Google under my management since 2006 that
> returns search results in the familiar Google format, based on searching
> all the institutional repositories (digital archives) in Australia, and
> nothing else. The price is that Google advertising appears on the results
> page. I have just updated AuseSearch, using the data in Kennan & Kingsley
> http://firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/2282
>/ 2092, while including Australasian Digital Theses as well.
>
>
>
> May I encourage you to add the link to AuseSearch to any relevant library
> or repository search pages? My university did so long ago. AuseSearch does
> a similar thing to the Australian ARROW Discovery Service, but faster,
> without the glitz, with Google's ranking of results, and it is free.
>
>
>
> You can check this out by going to
> http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=012189697858739272261:yyyqychcumo
> (AuseSearch's home page). You can add an AuseSearch box to a personal
> iGoogle home page there too.
>
>
>
> Better you can add the search box to your library website or repository
> homepage by using this code. Results will appear on a new Google page.
>
> <form action="http://www.google.com/cse" id="cse-search-box">
>
> <div>
>
> <input type="hidden" name="cx"
> value="012189697858739272261:yyyqychcumo" />
>
> <input type="hidden" name="ie" value="UTF-8" />
>
> <input type="text" name="q" size="31" />
>
> <input type="submit" name="sa" value="Search" />
>
> </div>
>
> </form>
>
>
>
> <script type="text/javascript"
> src="http://www.google.com/coop/cse/brand?form=cse-search-box&lang=en"></sc
>r ipt>
>
>
>
> The same technique can be used for any country. Once the data is in an
> institutional repository, it is findable and capable of being aggregated.
> This is why institutional repositories and mandates to deposit in them are
> so important. How about similar facilities for the USA, Canada, Germany, or
> whatever? I'm happy to help or even set them up. We could have a directory
> of country-based search engines for those that want to drill down into a
> country issue!
>
>
>
> Arthur Sale
>
> Emeritus Professor of Computer Science
>
> University of Tasmania
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