CIL federated search white papers of vendor offerings

http://www.infotoday.com/cilmag/may08/FederatedSearch_WhitePaper_CIL0508.pdf
Computers in Libraries has published a set of four federated search vendor-sponsored white papers: Federated Search For Your Library and in Your Enterprise.

Building a Better Search Query Through Content Mining, by Swets
Discover: It’s Not About Federated Search, it’s About Discovery, by Gale
Primo Discovery and Delivery – Beyond the OPAC: A unified interface for [...]

Boston Search Engine Meeting: Presentations

http://federatedsearchblog.com/2008/05/06/boston-search-engine-meeting-presentations/
thanks to Federated Search Bllog for this item

Federated Search: True Enterprise Search. Abe Lederman, president and founder of Deep Web Technologies, and sponsor of this blog, shows how federated search overcomes limitations of enterprise search.
Search as a Mode of Learning: Requirements for Next Generation Search Systems. While the presentation doesn’t specifically mention federated search, the [...]

University of Wisconsin aims to assess the usefulness of Metalib

http://federatedsearchblog.com/2008/03/07/university-of-wisconsin-aims-to-assess-usefulness-of-metalib/
By August 21, the MetaLib Assessment Working group, charged with the usefulness study, will deliver its final report of its findings. The Assessment Wiki notes four key expectations of its investigation:

Conduct a review of the literature and summarize the empirical research that 1) assesses usability of and user response to federated search [...]