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Resources
[ To suggest resources to add to this list please send an email to sol dot lederman at gmail dot com. ]
Wikipedia definitions
Checklists
- 100 questions to ask federated search vendors
- Checklist of considerations for considering metasearch software (Drafted at the Access 2004 Hackfest by Julie Arie, Saskatchewan Provincial Library, Kent Weaver, University of Toronto and Roy Tennant, California Digital Library.)
Websites
- The Library of Congress:Portals Applications Issues Group - Federated Search Portal Products & Vendors
- The Invisible Web
- 99 Resources to Research & Mine the Invisible Web
Presentations
Note: There’s a blog article that lists 21 outstanding federated search presentations.
- Federated Search; The Good, The Bad and The Ugly (June 5, 2007Federated Search Engines - The Unified
- Search Environment: The Western Health Experience 2006 (2006)
- Falling Down the Portal: Adventures in Federated Metasearch Technology at California State University Northridge (October 1, 2005)
- Sometimes Google Isn’t Enough: Finding Information on the Invisible Web (June 7, 2005)
Videos
- Searching the Deep Web. U.S. Dept. of Energy, Office of Scientific and Technical Information. (July 17, 2003)
- FLICC Brown Bag Series - Federated Search Technologies
Tutorials
- “The Deep Web.” Internet Tutorials. (University Libraries, U at Albany, State U of New York, March 28, 2007)
- Invisible Web: What It Is, Why It Exists, How to Find It, and Its Inherent Ambiguity (June 2005 )
- Federated Search Engines at SearchItRight (April 2004)
Papers/Articles
- Recent Developments in Federated Search (March 2008)
- Information Outlook: Federated Search at the Intel Library (September 2007)
- The Peloponnesian War and the Future of Reference, Cataloging, and Scholarship in Research Libraries (June 2007)
- Federated Search is dead, dead, dead… (April 2007)
- Federated Searching: Do Undergraduates Prefer It and Does It Add Value? (April 2007)
- The end of federated search? (March 2007)
- The Truth About Federated Searching (October 2003)
Conference Presentations
- The Alberta Library: Federated Search Symposium (February 2006)
- Federated Search: Practical Applications and Future Directions - NFAIS Conference (July 2005)
References
Blogs