I agree with Chris that "there certainly seems to be the space to
accommodate commercial offerings within a broader open source local
environment".There was some discussion around this topic on the open
source listserve (LIS-OSS) earlier in the year
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=LIS-OSS;5c66f3bf.1102
Most (all?) the proprietary discovery services use the same underlying
open source components as the open source offerings like VuFind and
Blacklight I think. That's some evidence that search itself has become
commodified. So the real *value* of the commercail/proprietary
discovery services (hence what you are really paying for) lies not in
serach per se but rather in the index--which is typically aggregated
as the 'cloud' service. This 'shared service' approach has
considerable benefits --just think of all the potential value in that
collective intelligence. I'm sure for example we'll be seeing more
services offereing recommender and associated services.
BTW the BASE service uses the same open source search technology for
its international *repository* discovery service.
http://base.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/en/index.php "one of the world's most
voluminous search engines especially for academic open access web
resources. BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library"
Ken
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On 25 July 2011 12:07, Jacqueline Wickham
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> *Posted on behalf of Chris Awre, University of Hull by Jackie Wickham*
>
> Following on from Paul's email, we are also considering the value of the commercial offerings for discovery at the University of Hull, whilst identifying how these can relate to our open source environment. We are in the throes of implementing Blacklight (http://projectblacklight.org) as the primary interface to our institutional repository, but are also looking at expanding a pilot we did for the JISC last year on running this over our library catalogue to provide a combined interface. Running the discovery system locally is allowing us to manage the indexes and how we then present findings to users: Blacklight offers a flexible interface that can be applied to different discovery scenarios for this.
>
> I have over the past year had conversations with vendors about how such a local interface might be linked to commercial indexes like Summon, EBSCO Discovery etc. There are clearly issues about what is then being provided/sold, and issues also around what is viable to manage locally, but there certainly seems to be the space to accommodate commercial offerings within a broader open source local environment.
>
> Regards,
>
> Chris
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: An informal open list set up by UKSG - Connecting the Information Community [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Paul Stainthorp
> Sent: 22 July 2011 16:37
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [lis-e-resources] Resource Discovery Platforms
>
> Hello Dawn,
>
> We're in the early stages of reviewing four commercial products:
>
> 1)OCLC WorldCat Local (my notes: http://lncn.eu/xy7)
> 2)Ex Libris Primo (my notes: http://lncn.eu/ptv)
> 3)EBSCO Discovery Service (my notes: http://lncn.eu/aijp)
> 4)Serials Solutions Summon (no notes yet - awaiting demo)
>
> We're also looking at a 'catch-all' review of open-source initiatives,
> including VuFind, and some local work funded by JISC (the Jerome
> project: http://jerome.library.lincoln.ac.uk/)
>
> There's some very useful information about discovery platforms on the
> HELibTech wiki, at: http://helibtech.com/Discovery
>
> Regards,
>
> Paul
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> -----Original Message-----
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> D.L.Fitzgerald
> Sent: 22 July 2011 16:31
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> Subject: [lis-e-resources] Resource Discovery Platforms
>
> Hi,
>
> Would anyone be able to provide list of what discovery platforms are
> currently available on the market including open source platforms?
> I need to write a market report that details what products are
> available. Also, for those of you that have gone through the process of
> buying a system would you be able to share with me what criteria you
> used to purchase and let me know how many of these systems you looked at
> via demonstrations?
>
> I realise similar questions have been asked in the past but any help you
> can offer me would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Dawn
>
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