The Age of Discovery

This post was written by Darcy Pedersen on June 24, 2011
Posted Under: Features,Federated Search

Abe Lederman is heading to the ALA Annual Conference this weekend in New Orleans to take part in a fascinating panel discussion: The Age of Discovery: Understanding Discovery Services, Federated Search and Web Scale.   Here’s a brief description:

Findability, discovery services, federated search, web scale—ways to discover content are increasing all the time, but how do we discover which discovery mechanism is appropriate? Join us to learn more about the discovery landscape. When is it appropriate to use federated search over a discovery service? How does this differ by type of researcher? What kinds of resources should be included in discovery tools? Learn discovery implementation from two librarians in the trenches; learn about “web scale” and how federated search and discovery are evolving from the experts; and how the rest of us can sort out this tangle of access methods!

Join Abe and the other panelists Sunday, June 26, 2011, 4:00-5:30 pm, at the Hilton Riverside – Grand Salon C.

Abe’s presentation is available here: http://www.deepwebtech.com/ala2011.ppt.

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