Review: EI federated search web conference

Last month I posted about Education Institute’s upcoming “Federated Search: New Tools and Best Practices” web conference. The conference just happened and here is my review.

Cervone and Wisniewski covered quite a bit of material in the hour allocated for the web conference. Attendees received a 40 page slide show to follow along with during the presentation. The slides covered these subjects:

• Very brief introduction to federated search
• Screen shots of a number of federated search applications
• Graphs showing upward trends in federated search use at the presenters’ universities
• “The world is shrinking” - consolidation of vendors and offerings
• Simplification of search interfaces
• The landscape of federated search vendors past and present
• Integration of content accessed from all sources
• Open source offerings
• Enhanced tools and features
• OpenURL
• Trends

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