Federate vs. aggregate

Dear all,

Sorry for missing out in the meeting yesterday. In the minutes I saw the
discussion about federate vs. aggregate:

> <monica> one other way to define federate and aggregate is, federate
> is send a search term to remote source, and bring back only results,
> aggregate is to pool all possible metadata locally then do the
> search.

I'd second that definition, perhaps with the addition, that when you
federate (search), you send a search term to remote source_s_, and get
results back. But perhaps -- as Monica hinted -- this is too library
specific...

All the best,

Lars

-- 
Dr. Lars G. Svensson
Deutsche Nationalbibliothek / Informationstechnik
http://www.d-nb.de/

Received on Friday, 10 December 2010 07:49:40 UTC