Tuesday, June 11, 2002

Open Archives Initiative

my.OAI is a full-featured search interface to a selected list of metadata databases. They have recently made some inprovements

The following changes/improvements were made:

  • Added a recommender system which suggest other documents perhaps worth looking at based on prior search and retrieval patterns of other users.
  • Changed the way in which databases are selected, now they are displayed as a list rather than databases with checkboxes, this is to accommodate their growing numbers.
  • Added the ability to run a meta-search, displaying the total number of results per database before displaying the search results, the user can then pick which database(s) they want to see results for.
  • Added the ability to group the search results by database, the user can then pick which database(s) they want to see results for.
  • Added documents viewed to the search history, now you can see both your previous searches and all the document you viewed in reverse chronological order.

    Thanks to FOS for bringing this to my attention.

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