OZSDUG Meeting and Demo of Rome

The Gordian Knot blog recently mentioned the OZSDUG (OZarks SirsiDynix Users Group) meeting that took place on June 5th… I attended the meeting - here are my notes:
First up, a SirsiDynix Sales Rep answered a list of pre-prepared questions:

Question - Can we trust SirsiDynix promises? Answer - “No.”
The company that bought Sirsi told them to [...]

CIL2006, Day 1: Federated Search Engines - Lessons Learned

Frank Cervone:
70% of all searches are keyword searches and they pretty much get article searches
Students don’t understand the concept of “metasearch” and federated
Federated product - good place to go for starters
students have strong expectations about how results should be displayed: relevance order - it’s the search engine model…
advanced users tend to head towards databses
If it’s [...]

New twist on federated search

In the latest InfoWorld trade mag, there was an article on federated technology from a corporate point of view. Most of the article was boring, but there was one eye-opener, for me anyway: bank ATM machines are basically a federated system… wow! never thought of that before.