Web scale discovery services provide

(A) Content

(B) Discovery

(C) Delivery

(D) Blog contents

Choose the correct answer from the options given below:

The correct answer is "(A), (B), and (C) only".

Key Points

• Web Scale Discovery Services-
  • Web Scale Discovery Services are tools capable of searching quickly and seamlessly across a vast range of local and remote content and providing relevancy-ranked results in a type of intuitive interface.
  • Web-scale discovery services enable single search box queries that reveal content from various sources.

Additional Information

• Traits of Web-Scale Discovery Services-
  • Content- 
    • These Services harvest content from local and remotely hosted repositories and create a vastly comprehensive centralized index - to the article level.  
    • Content is enabled through the harvesting of local library resources, combined with brokered agreements with publishers and aggregators allowing access to their metadata and full-text content for indexing purposes.
  • Discovery-
    • ​These services have a single
      search box providing a Google-like search
      experience (as well as advanced searching
      capabilities).
  • Delivery- 
    • These services provide quick
      results ranked by relevancy in a modern interface offering functionality and design cues intuitive to and expected by today’s users.
  • Flexibility-
    • These services are agnostic to underlying systems, whether hosted by the library or hosted remotely by content providers.
    • These services are open compared to traditional library systems and allow libraries greater latitude to customize the services and make the service it's own.