Prototypes for searching multiple databases

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Prototypes for searching multiple databases

Different Kinds of Prototypes:

Questions for Each Possible Prototype:

Three Partial Prototype Interfaces:

Social Science Metadata

Discovering Resources Across Archives

NESSTAR allows users to:

Three Search Screens

NESSTAR Project “Dream Machine”(Social scientists’ ideal data search & retrieval scenario)

AHDS: Arts and Humanities Data Service

The AHDS Resource Discovery Challenge

Searching the Databases

The AHDS Gateway:

AHDS: “Challenges to be Confronted”

AHDS: “Challenges to be Confronted”

CORC: Cooperative Online Resource Catalog

Authority Control in CORC

The Future of the CORC Project

Projects by the Getty Trust:

aat Search results

aat Search results

aka Limitations

Books & Auction CatalogsSeparate Authorities

Auction Catalog Record

Z39.50 Projects

Pharos Project - CSU

Pharos: capabilities & future enhancements

Pharos Result Screen

SearchLight - UC project

Strengths of Z39.50 cross-database searching

Weaknesses of Z39.50 metasearching

Weaknesses of MetaSearching

Comments & Feedback

Author: David G. Lawrie

Home Page: http://library.csun.edu/mwoodley/Prototypes/index.html

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