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Overview
of the Open SiteSearch Suite
Contents
What
is the Open SiteSearch Suite?
What Can You Do with the Open SiteSearch Suite?
What's Included in the Open SiteSearch Suite?
Open SiteSearch WebZ software
Open SiteSearch Database Builder software
Open SiteSearch Record Builder application
What is the Open SiteSearch Suite?
The Open SiteSearch
suite of software provides a comprehensive solution for managing distributed
library information resources in a World Wide Web environment. It offers
tools that integrate electronic resources under one Web interface,
control access to resources, and build text and image databases
locally.
What Can You Do with the Open SiteSearch Suite?
- Integrate
library resources for easy user access. Open SiteSearch creates
a virtual electronic library by linking your local catalog, locally
mounted databases, remote catalogs, Internet resources, the OCLC FirstSearch
service and other online services seamlessly for easy one-stop access
by users.
- Build new
electronic resources. The virtual library starts with you. Your
library can create Web-accessible electronic collections from difficult-to-use
resources, such as special collections and reserve room materials, brining
these resources out of the back room and to the user.
- Bring local
and remote resources together. Based on user demand, network capacity,
and license fees, you choose which databases to load locally and which
ones to access remotely, providing seamless access to your users.
- Apply local
insight. You will appreciate the flexibility of Open SiteSearch.
You decide indexing rules and record formats when building databases
as well as how best to customize an interface to meet your users' needs.
What's Included in the Open SiteSearch Suite?
The Open SiteSearch
suite includes the following software packages:
Open SiteSearch WebZ software
WebZ provides
a web-accessible interface to your library's electronic resources, and
integrates the access to local and remote information. WebZ also provides
the primary infrastructure for the Database Builder
and Record Builder applications.
In addition, the WebZ software provides the following features and advantages:
- Customizable
Interface. Provide your users with a customized, common user interface
to all your resources, eliminating user confusion with multiple resource
interfaces, commands, and locations.
- Multi-database
Searching. Create topic areas and virtual catalogs that allow your
users to search multiple library catalogs simultaneously for fast, comprehensive
retieval.
- Access Control.
Gives you flexible access and authorization control supporting your
licensing arrangements and presenting users with sets of resources tailored
to their needs.
- Powerful
Searching. Provide a fully functional interface that includes search
history, record bookmarking, export, and browse.
- Resource
Delivery. Gives your users direct access to resources they need
through unmediated standards-based interlibrary loan, document delivery,
and online full-text display.
The following
resources provide additional information about the WebZ software:
- Introduction
to WebZ. Provides a system-level description of the components that
make up the WebZ software.
- WebZ
System Administration. Provides links to all topics relating to
the operation and configuration of the WebZ software.
Open SiteSearch Database Builder software
The Database Builder
software is a complete set of software for building and maintaining information
resources locally. Database Builder provides the following features and
advantages:
- Database
Indexing. You control the indexes and access points that make sense
to your users and your data.
- Host Databases
Locally. Host all types of data locally, including full text, abstracts,
indexes, and images.
- Powerful
Searching. Provide a full range of searching capabilities, including
keyword and phrase searching, Boolean operators, truncation, wildcards,
etc.
- Powerful
Searching. Provide a fully functional interface that includes search
history, record bookmarking, export, and browse.
The following
resources provide additional information about the Database Builder software:
Open SiteSearch Record Builder Application
Record Builder is
an end-user application built on WebZ
technology that harnesses Database
Builder's administrative utilities to allow the creation, modification,
and maintenance of Newton searchable databases for local collections of
such things as images, sound files, web sites, and data. Through its own
pre-built web interface, Record Builder offers an alternative to batch
updating by providing cataloguers a way to add, modify, and delete single
records online using a variety of predefined templates and workforms.
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