Comments on: It’s a contest! Predict the future of federated search

By: Deep Web Technologies is sponsoring our second annual writing contest

Deep Web Technologies is sponsoring our second annual writing contest — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 00:28:36 +0000

[...] contest that Deep Web Technologies is sponsoring. This is our second year running the contest. Last year’s contest asked readers to predict the future of federated search and to describe that future in an essay of [...]

By: Rebecca Feind

Rebecca Feind — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 21:49:00 +0000

Thanks, Sol. Perhaps I’ll think more positively along the lines of A Librarian’s Wish List for Federated Searching.

By: Sol

Sol — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:55:22 +0000

Rebecca - Everyone is quite welcome to write about issues with federated search. No, we’re not interested in staying in a sandbox. If you believe that federated search will go away and can articulate it well then that is great.

By: Rebecca Feind

Rebecca Feind — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:51:44 +0000

What about librarians who have “issues” with federated searching. Do you want to hear from us curmudgeons or would you rather we stay in our own sandbox?

By: Sol

Sol — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:09:40 +0000

Avi,

Contest rule #9 partially addresses your question although I need to update it for the CIL publication. Rule #9 currently states:

“Those submitting winning entries agree to have their essays published in this blog. Beyond publication in this blog, authors retain full rights to their work.”

By: Avi Rappoport

Avi Rappoport — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 18:07:32 +0000

Are you planning to publish the entries online, or in print? I ask because I’d like to read them.

Also, what kind of copyright and other rights will you want on these? Non-exclusive, I hope! If you haven’t thought about it, please take a look at the Creative Commons licenses.