Jill Hurst-Wahl of Digitization 101, yesterday published a list of blogs and presentations related to federated search. Here is Jill’s blog list:

• The Blog Libific by Peter McCracken, librarian and co-founder of Serials Solutions
• Federated Search Blog written primarily by Sol Lederman and sponsored by Deep Web Technologies
• MUSEings written by MuseGlobal CEO Kate Noerr
• Search Done Right, a team blog by Vivisimo, which is a more broadly focused blog
• Beyond Search by Steve Arnold at Arnold IT, which focuses on all corners of the search industry, including federated search

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Late last month, Free Pint Limited published a document, Federated Search Report and Tool Kit. The report was authored by Jill Hurst-Wahl. Jill has an extensive background in information technology and library science. Her web-site has additional biographical information beyond the following paragraph:

Jill Hurst-Wahl has worked in and around information for most of her life. Her background is in information technology and library science. She has been both a programmer/analyst and a corporate librarian. While a corporate librarian, she worked on competitive intelligence research projects and helped to build a competitive intelligence system that used digitization as one of the methods of inputting information. That was more than 15 years ago and Jill has continued to do work both in the areas of digitization and competitive intelligence.

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[ Editor's note: This is a guest post by Jill Hurst-Wahl, author of Digitization 101. Jill's post discusses an important topic that is not commonly discussed, that collection development and federated search application development are not independent activities. ]

Ed Shephard, Head of Collection Development & Management at Binghamton (NY) University Libraries, spoke during the second day of the Library Camp @ Syracuse, which was focused on collection development. Shephard reminded us that federated search is part of collection development because it impacts how users view and interact with a library’s electronic collection. (Note: I am purposefully using the phrase electronic collection, since (1) historically we have talked about electronic resources in libraries and (2) some people wrongly believe that “digital” resources mean “digitized” resources.)

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