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Institutional Web Management Workshop 2004: Parallel Session B8

Choosing a search facilty

28 July 2004, 4.00 - 5.30pm

  1. Exercise 1: What do you want and need?
  2. Introduction
  3. Search Engines used in UK HE (1999-2003)
  4. Trends in change
  5. Issues with categories of search software
  6. Issues with free (open-source) software
  7. Issues with free-of-charge externally hosted indexes
  8. Issues with 'built-in' software
  9. Issues with commercial software
  10. Rolling your own
  11. What do you need?
  12. Controlling access intentionally: 1
  13. Controlling access intentionally: 2
  14. Controlling access unintentionally
  15. Adding metadata
  16. Metadata and PDFs
  17. Indexing other pages and filetypes
  18. Indexing OPACs
  19. Excercise 2: Reviewing your problems
  20. Further info

Author: Helen Varley Sargan
July 2004