Discussion Question 1: Federated Searching Features
For those who offer access to a federated search product, what features do you find most useful and most frustrating about it?
posted by Christopher Cox at
5:46 AM
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Federated searching is just not what librarians expect, but that's OK. It is not as controllable or configurable. If you are using an http translator-based product such as WebFeat, there are a lot of inconsistencies that appear from database to database in terms of how to present results and database-unique features. Translators break all the time. A resource that seems desirable may be less so if it consistently dominates the results sets. Everything is more vague and may change from one visit to the next. This requires a tolerance for inconsistency that is not often found in librarians, but it often present in users.
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