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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2 comments:
I was just wondering if anything was mentioned about the departure of Pat from SIRSI and the rumors that the company was going to move back to Provo? Do we know yet which system the company will use...will it be horizon or Polaris?
not much mention about Pat except brief "he'll be missed, he did great, we loved him" not much comments about the changes in ownership except for "inevitable, rolling with it, promissing and the few ...very hands on descriptives of Vista Partners." I did hear a few comments about how young they were. ;) No rumors about moving or products being discontinued (except DRA Classic but we knew that.)
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