<font size="2"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">[Forwarding from Dirk Pieper. --Peter Suber.]</font><br><br></font><div class="gmail_quote"><br>Dear colleagues,<br>
<br>
to keep in touch with the „dramatic growth of Open Access“ we are happy to<br>
announce a new test version of the OAI-Search-Engine BASE (Bielefeld Academic<br>
Search Engine, <a href="http://www.base-search.net" target="_blank">www.base-search.net</a>) in our BASE Lab. The new version is<br>
developed on Lucene/Solr instead of FAST/Microsoft and has a VuFind-Search-<br>
Interface, which you can try here directly:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://baselab.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/?l=en" target="_blank">http://baselab.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/?l=en</a><br>
<br>
The FAST index was pushed to a limit last year, but because the harvesting of<br>
repositories continued, the test index in our BASE Lab contains about one<br>
million documents more. Some repositories are not included in BASE Lab for<br>
technical reasons.<br>
<br>
New repositories will be included in our new system only, please understand<br>
that we need some time for that; index update happens not on a weekly basis<br>
yet. There is also new BASE-OAI-PMH blog for those, who want to particapte<br>
from our experience in metadata harvesting:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/baseoai/" target="_blank">http://ekvv.uni-bielefeld.de/blog/baseoai/</a><br>
<br>
Unsurprisingly the FAST software works a little different from Lucene/Solr. At<br>
this stage, there is no multilingual search (using Eurovoc Thesaurus) and no<br>
lemmatization for different languages in Lucene. We have included the Porter<br>
Stemmer, but if someone gives us the money for example the „Rosette<br>
Linguistsics Platform“, we would be much happier ;-)). Of course there are<br>
some new features, like sending results to an email-adress or RSS-Feeds.<br>
<br>
In the next few months we want to finish the migration but for now we are<br>
looking forward for some feedback .<br>
<br>
<br>
About BASE:<br>
<br>
BASE is the name of the multi-disciplinary search engine for scientifically<br>
relevant OAI-Sources which was created and developed by Bielefeld University<br>
Library. BASE is one of the biggest OAI-Search-Engines and includes some 25,5<br>
million documents originating from more than 1.700 sources<br>
<br>
BASE Search:<br>
<a href="http://www.base-search.net/" target="_blank">http://www.base-search.net/</a><br>
<br>
BASE Lab<br>
<a href="http://baselab.base-search.net" target="_blank">http://baselab.base-search.net</a><br>
<br>
Best regards<br>
Dirk<br>
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<font color="#888888">Dirk Pieper<br>
BASE<br>
Bielefeld UL<br>
Universitaetsstrasse 25, D-33615 Bielefeld<br>
fon: +49 (0)521/ 106-4010 fax: -6452<br>
<a href="http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de" target="_blank">www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de</a><br>
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