Customized Search Engine for Canadian Government Documents
The spread of customized searching continues in the library world.
David Sharp, the Government Publications Librarian at the Maps, Data and Government Information Centre at Carleton University in Ottawa, has recently developed a customized search tool for Canadian government documents. It is in the middle of the page.
According to a post on the Access to Government Information blog:
“For now, it searches on the federal level, including select crown corporations, the provincial and territorial level; as well, it searches 80 municipal sites from across Canada. (The 80 municipalities were chosen from a list of Statistic Canada’s Census Metropolitan Areas, Census Agglomerations, and Census Subdivisions for Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Apologies if I overlooked anyone.)”
As an example, try a search for “wrongful conviction miscarriage justice”. There are results from Justice Canada, the Canadian Intergovernmental Conference Secretariat, the governments of Ontario and Manitoba, the House of Commons and the Senate, etc.
Sharp writes that he was inspired by the librarians at the Indiana University Libraries in Bloomington, Indiana who developed the customized search tool for intergovernmental organizations I described on November 16, 2006.
I have posted before on Slaw about custom search engines that librarians and others have been building.
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