Muse A research environment for providing the complete

Muse A research environment for providing the complete Information Service Copyright © 2001 Muse. Global, Inc. - All rights reserved 1

Muse Multi-user Universal Search Environment • Muse is an Internet service offering searching of available Internet and Intranet information sources for any organization. • It is not a search engine. • It utilizes the power and specialization of existing search engines by asking questions of them and combining the results. • It will search the Web, library catalogs, information databases, and other sources. • It provides Extended Services to allow postprocessing of retrieved information Copyright © 2001 Muse. Global, Inc. - All rights reserved 2

The Technology - Syntax & Formats u Internal data (XML, Q. DC, tree structure) u Comms (TCP/IP, Z 39. 50, http, telnet, etc. ) u Searches (RPN, CCL, SQL, O-URL, etc. ) u Records (HTML, MARC, SUTRS, etc. ) u Internal canonical forms (ISR, IDR) u Mapped display formats u Actions (SIP 2, NCIP, SOAP, etc. ) Copyright © 2001 Muse. Global, Inc. - All rights reserved 3

The Technology - Architecture u ICE provides a platform independent operation environment for Muse u Muse is written in Java u Processing modules operate asynchronously, in parallel u Inherently distributed architecture u Processing can devolve across systems for scalability Copyright © 2001 Muse. Global, Inc. - All rights reserved 4

The Technology - Functionality u Parallel processing (searching, sorting, etc. ) u Processing (dedupe, reformat, sort, etc. ) u Store / retrieve data locally (Work. Room) u Extended Services (Availability, Enrich, ILL) u Authentication & Remote Sign On Copyright © 2001 Muse. Global, Inc. - All rights reserved 5

Muse Uses – The Library u Content Delivery u Portal u Information Boutique u Virtual Union Catalog u Virtual Library Gateway Copyright © 2001 Muse. Global, Inc. - All rights reserved 6

The Muse Use(r) – Library Patron u Remote Authentication • Access Muse from home or away u Personalization • Save results, change decoration & functionality u Circ & Loan functions • Status, ‘Availability’, place holds and loan requests u Enhanced records • Show images, To. C, reviews, full text u e-Purchasing • Buy items from Internet merchants u Single Sign On • Access remote databases through the library portal Copyright © 2001 Muse. Global, Inc. - All rights reserved 7