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"Matthew J. Dovey" wrote: > On a related matter, one of the other concerns from the metasearch crew > is about branding. One of the things I focused on in a report I did for > the JISC on service descriptions is the wealth of bradning type > information in traditional Explain. For instance: > > An icon used to represent this database (in machine presentable form) > (today this would probably be termed a logo rather than icon).... Can someone provide insight into the branding issue as it pertains to metasearching (and srw, Z39.50, explain, zeerex, etc.)? If it's just a matter of getting the information elements defined in appropriate schemas, that doesn't seem a significant problem. I have the impression, though, that the problem is, metasearching implies de-duping. So if you search 20 systems and they all have the same record (according to whatever deduping algorithm is used) you end up with a single record (not 20) in the consolodated result set, and the record loses its identity as belonging to any one of the systems. Is that not the problem? --Ray