https://nostuff.org/archive/tags/events/ Recent content in Events on nostuff.org archive | Chris Keene Hugo en-gb Tue, 25 May 2010 21:38:05 +0000 https://nostuff.org/archive/2010/summon-huddersfield/ Tue, 25 May 2010 21:38:05 +0000 https://nostuff.org/archive/2010/summon-huddersfield/ <p>I attended an event at Huddersfield looking at their and Northumberland’s experience of Summon. <a href="http://library.hud.ac.uk/blogs/summon4hn/?p=22">http://library.hud.ac.uk/blogs/summon4hn/?p=22</a> These are my rough notes. Take all with a pinch of salt.</p> <p>The day reaffirmed my view of Summon, it is ground breaking in the Library market, and with no major stumbling blocks. They are very aware that coverage is key and seem to be adding items and publishers. It searches items that a organisation has access to (though users can tick a option to search all items in the kb, not just those they can access). They have good metadata, merging records from a number of sources, and making use of subject headings (to refine or exclude from the search).</p>