Comments on: Library Automation: SirsiDynix and Brainware

By: Relevancy ranking in Summon – "Self-plagiarism is style"

Relevancy ranking in Summon – "Self-plagiarism is style" — Sat, 02 Jul 2011 11:06:21 +0000

[...] best (which might be one of the reasons why SirsiDynix have recently moved Enterprise from using Brainware to [...]

By: Aline

Aline — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:44:29 +0000

Yes, Endeca hooked up with Ebsco to provide “guided navigation” to Ebsco customers. Most online public access catalogs and library-centric search systems match the users’ query terms or force the user to search by entering an author’s name. ,Is this post Old? Got something to say?

By: Aline

Aline — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:43:22 +0000

By: SirsiDynix Search Plus Discovery for Libraries : Beyond Search

SirsiDynix Search Plus Discovery for Libraries : Beyond Search — Sun, 24 May 2009 05:05:05 +0000

[...] Brainware landed a deal to provide search and discovery to SirsiDynix. After a bit of poking around, I learned that SirsiDynix wanted to move beyond key word search and provide users of its library systems with discovery functions. “Discovery”, as used in this sense, refers to giving a person looking for information easy-to-use methods to look for related information and suggested information also germane to the user’s query. Endeca hooked up with Ebsco to provide “guided navigation” to Ebsco customers. Most online public access catalogs and library-centric search systems match the users’ query terms or force the user to search by entering an author’s name. Change, at long last, seems to be coming to the library for search of an institution’s textual information. I wrote about some of the Brainware system’s capabilities in my 2008 study “Beyond Search” for the Gilbane Group here. I also did a short write up about Brainware in this Web log in early 2008 here. [...]

By: T Morris

T Morris — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 03:31:27 +0000

Brainware is owned by the same company that owns Sirsidynix
http://www.vistaequitypartners.com/Companies.html