Federated Search

Starting a page to collect resources about FederatedSearch.

There are some implementation-related notes regarding the FCS-Aggregator.

Services

Here is one preliminary list of services available (or planned) within the Federated search - EDC

Provider	DB/Collection	endpoint
KNAW	mimore	​http://www.meertens.knaw.nl/mimore/srucql/
MPI	IMDI-subset	​http://cqlservlet.mpi.nl/
ICLTT	C4	​http://corpus3.aac.ac.at/ddconsru
UPF	Catalan Press	​http://gilmere.upf.edu/girona_sru
ICLTT	CMDI-MDService	​http://clarin.aac.ac.at/MDService2/sru

And following some reference SRU-services:

Provider	endpoint	info
Library of Congress	​http://z3950.loc.gov:7090/voyager	?
Oxford English Dictionary	​http://www.oed.com/srupage	​info about OED-SRU service
Gutenberg (metadata) provided by indexdata	​http://opencontent.indexdata.com/gutenberg	​project Open Content

Docs

There is a discussion paper under: FederatedSearch/docs/FederatedSearch.docx​
that tries to collect all the previous information, especially around the Query Language and the use of the protocol in individual Working Groups/ subprojects(EDC, clarin.nl: Search & Development).

It can be seen as a much more concise successor of what has been there until now, like the QueryLanguage page on trac-wiki and both the MM/EDC proposal and the Search & Development status report.

Meanwhile there has been a review round and already some feedback/comments, also integrated in the document, so it is getting more complete, although there are still empty chapters and question marks.

Also changes are now being logged inside the document. (as of 2011-03-15)

We still need a short version of that!