Description
After purchasing Summon for our consortium, we decided that rather than offer it as yet another search interface amongst the many already existing, we wanted to integrate the search experience with our catalog (immediately) and other local databases (eventually). Find out what informed our decisions about interfaces to use, how we navigated the exciting possibilities of APIs and mashups, and discover the tools and resources you’ll need to implement something similar for your library.
Start Date
20-3-2013 2:30 PM
End Date
20-3-2013 3:30 PM
All Rivers Flow to the Sea: Integrating Web-Scale Discovery with Existing Systems
After purchasing Summon for our consortium, we decided that rather than offer it as yet another search interface amongst the many already existing, we wanted to integrate the search experience with our catalog (immediately) and other local databases (eventually). Find out what informed our decisions about interfaces to use, how we navigated the exciting possibilities of APIs and mashups, and discover the tools and resources you’ll need to implement something similar for your library.