Love it here. It was actually warmer in CO(46F) when I arrived, than it was in Orlando (37F) when I left. Now I know what the F stands for...
Got to talk to Mack about linking to respective blogs. Read his posts on
Swem Review.
The federated searching session from today was most excellent. It was the best idea to have both
sirsidynix present their products and efforts and 2 different users explain their selection and implementation process of 2 different products.
main 2 points in short:
XML matters most, and more and more everyday.
It's not about the searching, it's about the FINDING!
more to come.
mood: festive, smart, anticipatory.
cold
UPDATE:
Since Mack really puts me to shame with his coverage of the Federated search session, I will refer you back to his post and add a few more comments from the "how will/
would this work at
MPOW?" stand point.
Biggest discovery point ('reality bites'): I will have to implement (read: find time, funds and acquire expertise) proxy authentication for our users to our databases before
fedsearch can be done. There s a way to use the
sirsidynix portal
login to attempt it but not all db vendors are apt
to accept it as secure. Plus,
fedsearch is not going to replace native search so authentication will best be managed with one solution instead of trying to make it work separately in each.
Biggest remaining pondering point: The fed search product can be used
as an entry point to all your resources, including your own catalog, so IT could be the portal also...
hummmm...
Most valuable "freebie": once you set up
fedsearch, you can, should, will, have the ability to add resources that are available for free. Think image
seach including
flickr, yahoo and
google images and
picassa etc...
BACK TO: It's about the finding. Think DELIVERY OF THE RESOURCES DISCOVERED, always.
Blogging conference content is hard! see you soon.
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