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[Sigia-l] integrated catalogues?
Anyone care to discuss the relative pros and cons of integrating a bunch
of databases/catalogues under one search interface, versus separate
interfaces?
For example, anyone here work on the British Library website? They have
quite a few catalogues, with separate search interfaces for (and
different ways of presenting results, different sets of advanced options
etc etc etc)
Is this a technical limitation? Like, each is in a different database
and so they haven't got around to integrating them....or is there a user
experience benefit in doing it this way?
Obviously if you're looking for a particular type of content (manuscript
as opposed to photo) you might expect to use a different search
interface, but couldn't a drop-down list with several options handle
this? Or even simply formatting each result record based on the type of
material it represents?
Any thoughts?
And yes I am thinking specifically within the context of a library website.
cheers
Pat
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