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NISO Metasearch Initiatives Meeting

May 7, 2003M. Krellenstein

Goals To increase the accessibility and

appropriate utilization of Elsevier content for our customers

To simplify life for our customers

Challenges Access Search mechanisms Branding concerns

Access Would be available at Elsevier-licensed

sites Need to develop appropriate

intermediary authentication mechanisms

Requires identification as authorized robot Need to develop resource descriptions

to guide appropriate searching

Search mechanisms Currently support XML gateway Moving quickly towards Web service model

(SOAP) XQuery-based query language (would contribute) Query ‘wrapper’ for result set metadata All information transferred in XML Elsevier data model plus support for Dublin Core

Need to insure appropriate searching and monitoring of search traffic

Need to handle any unsupported features Need mechanism to handle updates to service Need to understand incremental costs (development,

searches, monitoring, support)

Branding concerns Need appropriate recognition that Elsevier

content is being searched Quality of search reflects on Elsevier

Availability Relevancy of results Performance Appropriate access to advanced features

Quality of result display and result attribution are important

Need fair ranking of results Need fair resolution of duplicates