Amazon's "Open" search results.
Building off of Alane's call over at It's All Good to "peer outside the garden walls" of the library world, I stumbled over to the O'Reilly "Emerging Technology Conference" to see what happened. After doing so, I began to beat myself around the neck and head for wimping out on asking my boss to attend this conference as I was not sure how I would adequately explain how all of this is related to libraries.
Lots of interesting content - especially some of the announcements at the conference, such as this - Amazon Calls for Open Search Results:
"The first results of Amazon's OpenSearch effort have begun to take shape on its A9.com search engine. The site includes over 35 searches from other sites, including the New York Times and photo site Flickr, which can appear as columns alongside normal Web searches.
To fulfill its OpenSearch vision, A9.com has built an extension to the RSS 2.0 standard. The initiative is comprised of XML-based search results, XML files that identify and describe a search engine, and OpenSearch aggregators such as A9.com that support the standard.
"We want this to do for search what RSS has done for content," said Bezos."
It seems like if anyone can drive this sort of stuff, it is either Amazon or Google. With local search becoming a bigger and bigger player, how could we integrate library holding's into the local search function of A9? Better yet, how can we show Amazon or Google it is worth their while to make sure that library holdings get included in their searches? [TechnoBiblio]
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