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Institutional Web Management Workshop 2004: Parallel Session B8
Choosing a search facilty
28 July 2004, 4.00 - 5.30pm
Exercise 1: What do you want and need?
Introduction
Search Engines used in UK HE (1999-2003)
Trends in change
Issues with categories of search software
Issues with free (open-source) software
Issues with free-of-charge externally hosted indexes
Issues with 'built-in' software
Issues with commercial software
Rolling your own
What do you need?
Controlling access intentionally: 1
Controlling access intentionally: 2
Controlling access unintentionally
Adding metadata
Metadata and PDFs
Indexing other pages and filetypes
Indexing OPACs
Excercise 2: Reviewing your problems
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