No thoughts at all on my questions below?
On 03/02/2011 12:40, Ross Gardler wrote:
> On 03/02/2011 12:10, Ian Haydock wrote:
>> Chris and Matthew,
>>
>> We're looking for a next-gen search interface/ resource
>> discovery system/ sliced bread replacement at the moment. To my mind I think
>> the feature that makes them worthwhile is the tie-in with your paid
>> resources - in other words the single search box for users that we've all
>> long talked about. Users don't want and often don't bother to search in
>> multiple places to find information, so it is our job to bring it together
>> and make it easier for them. In the fuure when students are paying up to £9K
>> per annum the grumbles will only get worse if we don't make it easier.......
>>
>> VuFind is great but it can't do all of that (because the big index only
>> comes at a cost). Hence I've been wondering whether the open source future
>> instead lies with the information that we build ourselves locally (eg the
>> LMS and the Repository), blended with the paid via this new interface? It
>> might take a while to get there however, as most of us have considerable
>> investment in those big monolithic LMS that Chris mentions....
>
> Are there any interim steps in getting from "here" to "there"?
>
> Would you be looking at doing work internally, subcontracting, buy in or
> a combination of these?
>
> Is this a common need across multiple libraries?
>
> Ross
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