This tool has some great reference applications! At LATI we had units on a variety of subjects--medical, legal, etc.--and we got recommended websites along with that training. Unfortunately, it's too easy to bury those notes so that it's hard to unearth them when you finally get asked that legal question where you can make use of them! We could create rollyos on the various subjects and have them on the ref desk.
I notice some overlap here with Del.icio.us. I'm using Delicious this way: I tag my favorite sites so that I can type in "poetry" and find all of them. As a result, it was really simple and quick to build a Rollyo search engine on poetry. But then again, from Delicious I would have to replicate the same search in a number of sites to have the same result that Rollyo can give me in one search. So while I'd be duplicating a bit during the set-up phase, I'd actually use them differently. Great tool!
p.s. As more quality content moves to the deep web and has to be purchased in the form of databases, wouldn't it be nice to be able to include our databases in a single search, instead of going though each individually?
I notice some overlap here with Del.icio.us. I'm using Delicious this way: I tag my favorite sites so that I can type in "poetry" and find all of them. As a result, it was really simple and quick to build a Rollyo search engine on poetry. But then again, from Delicious I would have to replicate the same search in a number of sites to have the same result that Rollyo can give me in one search. So while I'd be duplicating a bit during the set-up phase, I'd actually use them differently. Great tool!
p.s. As more quality content moves to the deep web and has to be purchased in the form of databases, wouldn't it be nice to be able to include our databases in a single search, instead of going though each individually?
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