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"The Engines win by a landslide, at least according to current college students. They preferred searching on Google or Yahoo versus their college library systems, based on the attributes of: speed (90%); convenience (84%); ease of use (87%); cost-effectiveness (71%); and reliability (63%). Libraries, however, won on more trustworthy measures including credibility (77%) and accuracy (76%). While students prefer library sources, they also heavily count on the engines. Over half (53%) say the results from engines are as trustworthy as libraries. Google, Yahoo and Ask all rank about the same, without much differentiation."

"La Recherche d'Information (RI) est un champ d'études historiquement organisé autour des documentalistes et des institutions chargées de gérer un grand nombre de documents, principalement textuels (tandis que le champ des bases de données se structurait principalement autour des informaticiens et de la gestion des systèmes d'information de l'entreprise). Les méthodes et les concepts en vigueur dans la Recherche d'Information dépendent fortement de ses origines historiques, et sont plus adaptées aux systèmes d'information documentaires que les méthodes issues de bases de données, car plus centrées sur les besoins des utilisateurs. Par exemple les notions de reformulation de requêtes, de pertinence utilisateur, de besoin d'information proviennent de la RI. "

"In a previous post, I discussed the different ways, one can add support to searching OPAC and other library subscribed databases. The four methods were Opensearch plugins , custom toolbars (Conduit toolbar , Google toolbar and Libx) , Smart keyword searches and Search bookmarklets"

"The Google Search Appliance XHTML Stylesheet defines a user interface for your Google Search Appliance that conforms to modern web standards including XHTML 1.0 Strict, XHTML Mobile Profile (XHTML-MP) and CSS 2.1. It generates well-formed, valid markup and is accessible in a variety of browsers and presentation modes. "

"Qu'est-ce qu'un moteur de recherche vertical ? Comparons le web à un univers, en constante expansion. Au sein de cette univers, on peut trouver diverses galaxies : celle des jeux vidéo, de la cuisine, ou de l'écologie par exemple. Un moteur de recherche classique fonctionne ambitieusement en cherchant ses informations sur toutes ces galaxies à la fois, nous privant ainsi de contexte. Chaque moteur Konodeo, à l'opposé, ne se consacre qu'à une galaxie, offrant un véritable contexte aux requêtes effectuées, et donc une meilleure finesse de résultats. "

"Vous désirez offrir à vos utilisateurs un accès simple à toute l'information disponible dans votre entreprise en respectant les règles de sécurité. Vous désirez mettre en place une solution à forte valeur ajoutée qui permet aux utilisateurs de capitaliser, d'organiser et de partager leur travail de recherche afin de valoriser pleinement l'information disponible ? AFS@Entreprise intègre la brique technologique CKS qui apporte les fonctions collaboratives dont vos utilisateurs ont besoin. Avec AFS@Enterprise, vous disposez de toute la puissance d'AFS pour trouver la bonne information quelque soit sa source (interne ou externe à l'entreprise), pour dynamiser le fonctionnement collaboratif de l'entreprise, tout en maîtrisant parfaitement les aspects de sécurité ou de confidentialité des données. "

The following tools can be used to connect to Ryerson Library resources and services from other sites on the web : - Google and NetVibes Search Gadget - Ryerson Library Lookup from Amazon/Indigo/Google Books - Search the Ryerson Library Catalogue from Facebook - Get It Buttons in Google Scholar - Ryerson Library Catalogue Search

"LibX is an open source browser extension for Firefox and Internet Explorer that provides access to your library's resources. Designed originally as a Firefox extension, version 1.0 of the LibX extension for Internet Explorer is available as of December 2008 (for those of you at Internet Explorer but not Firefox friendly institutions....or maybe that's just us!). "

"Widgetbox allows you to develop widgets, or mini-applications, that you can put into web pages, blogs or MySpace. There was also an option to create Facebook apps through Widgetbox, but it was disabled a few months ago so they could modify it to work with the new Facebook...it appears that's been tabled for the time being. To get started, you'll need to create an account. Once you've done that, you can select the type of widget you want to make. (...)"

"Open Search browser plug-ins are small XML files that reference a template URL which include any parameters for the specified search engine. Open Search browser plug-ins can be created using any search engine that produces a stable, durable URL to deliver results. The Open Search standard is compatible with the Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox 2.x browsers. Full documentation for the standard can be found at: http://www.opensearch.org/"

"Not all library content can be exposed as HTML pages for harvesting by search engines such as Google and Yahoo!. If a library instead exposes its content through a local search interface, that content can then be found by users of metasearch engines such as A9 and Vivísimo. The functionality provided by the local search engine will affect the functionality of the metasearch engine and the findability of the library's content. This paper describes that situation and some emerging standards in the metasearch arena that choose different balance points between functionality and ease of implementation. "

"The following are some of the Discovery Layer Interfaces that have been selected by libraries."

"It is hard to predict what the major challenge in search will be 100 years from now. The challenge may not even be related to information retrieval itself but could be the result of shortages of electricity, network disruptions due to insurgencies, information manipulation or access denial by an uncontrolled computer-based artificial intelligence (as imagined in the science fiction movie The Terminator). Of course, we could simply extrapolate the current ongoing trends, which we know do have an effect on information storage and retrieval, and might hope this gives an indication of some of the challenges that may affect finding and understanding information in a long-term perspective. In this article our focus will be on challenges that can be traced back to Time. Search is a two-sided issue: On one side, once data has been generated it has to be stored somewhere (on volatile or non-volatile media) and this stored data must somehow be accessible to a search or indexing engine; on the other side are the processes of search, retrieval and analysis of the data."

"The Web puzzle of online information resources often hinders end-users from effective and efficient access to these resources. Clustering resources into appropriate subject-based groupings may help alleviate these difficulties, but will it work with heterogeneous material? The University of Michigan and the University of California Irvine joined forces to test automatically enhancing metadata records using the Topic Modeling algorithm on the varied OAIster corpus. We created labels for the resulting clusters of metadata records, matched the clusters to an in-house classification system, and developed a prototype that would showcase methods for search and retrieval using the enhanced records. Results indicated that while the algorithm was somewhat time-intensive to run and using a local classification scheme had its drawbacks, precise clustering of records was achieved and the prototype interface proved that faceted classification could be powerful in helping end-users find resources. "

"MasterKey is a growing and evolving family of tools for building sophisticated information discovery solutions. They can be used individually, or they can be combined together using a shared service-based architecture. Some of the tools have been released by Index Data under OSS (open source software) licenses, whereas others, at this time, are made available exclusively to our customers. To complement the software, Index Data offers a full range of support, consulting, and development services. For businesses, our components are flexible and modular enough to fit into practically any existing software platform. For consortia and larger libraries, we offer an opportunity to create a solution which is uniquely adapted to local needs, while also based on open software components and open standards."

"Zebra is a high-performance, general-purpose structured text indexing and retrieval engine. It reads structured records in a variety of input formats (eg. email, XML, MARC) and allows access to them through exact boolean search expressions and relevance-ranked free-text queries. Zebra supports large databases (more than ten gigabytes of data, tens of millions of records). It supports incremental, safe database updates on live systems. You can access data stored in Zebra using a variety of Index Data tools (eg. YAZ and PHP/YAZ) as well as commercial and freeware Z39.50 clients and toolkits. Zebra is free software, available under the GPL license."

"For more than 15 years, Index Data has built technologies and solutions in support of searching. Our customers and partners include national libraries and consortia, government agencies, and commercial companies. Our business is to seek out the most challenging problems in the area of metasearching and large-scale content indexing and searching, and to engineer industrial-strength tools to help people solve those problems. We have been active participants in and contributors to the international standards communities in our field since the very beginning. Our open-source protocol implementations are the most widely used in the industry and have had significant impact on both the evolution and penetration of international standards like Z39.50 and SRU. Because of our long history in this area, and our focus on building flexible, reusable tools for developers and organizations, our partners can focus their attention on adding value and on creating compelling user experiences. "