See Stefanie Olsen's (CNET) article on innovations in search for the library market. Interesting follow-up to our post about libraries and OpenCourseWare. Stefanie mentions Eastwick client Groxis, which is working with Stanford and other universities to connect the academic community with many different content sources -- all through a single search box.
Stanford is one of the universities working with Google, and it will eventually digitize the university's entire 8.7 million-volume collection. It's also working with the search technology company Groxis (or Grokker), which makes software that graphically depicts data and its relevant relationships. The university is testing Groxis software plug-ins for access to 350 different data sources, and it hopes to one day have hundreds of plug-ins available for students.
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