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Summa/Search
Digital Libraries à la Carte 2009Tilburg University, 2009-07-31
Mads Villadsen <[email protected]>
Who
Mads Villadsen IT Developer at Statsbiblioteket since 2003 Technical Lead for the Summa project
What is Summa
Summa on One Page
Search Engine
Designed for Libraries
Scalable
Open Source
Modular
Flexible
Highly Configurable
Integrated Search
Java
Lucene Index(es)
LGPL Licensed
Developed Since Winter 2005
In Production Since Nov. 2006
Keywords Cold Facts
Summa Timeline
Winter 2005
Internal development using Lucene
Christmas 2005
“Beta” as Christmas present
November 2006
Relabeled as “Summa” and put in
production
September 2008
Summa 0.8 released as open source
Early 2007
A rewrite with ”Everything Done Right” (TM) starts
14th Sept. 2008
Summa 1.0
“Release Often”
Oct 31 2008 Summa 1.1
Feb 9 2009 Summa 1.2.0
Feb 18 2009 Summa 1.2.1
Mar 27 2009 Summa 1.3.0
Apr 16 2009 Summa 1.3.1
Apr 20 2009 Summa 1.3.2
Apr 20 2009 Summa 1.3.3
Apr 24 2009 Summa 1.4.0
Apr 28 2009 Summa 1.4.1
May 5 2009 Summa 1.4.2
May 11 2009 Summa 1.4.3
May 20 2009 Summa 1.4.4
Jun 4 2009 Summa 1.4.5
Jun 23 2009 Summa 1.4.6
Jun 26 2009 Summa 1.4.7
What is Search
Search Description
Search is the web interface used at the State and University Library, Aarhus, Denmark.
Dynamically integrates services from multiple sources Integrates records from multiple sources Different presentations for different types of records Has much of the “expected” functionality: Suggest, Did-
You-Mean, Similar Items, Facets, etc. Integration with backend systems – the user should
never have to leave the Search web interface.
Search Content
Horizon (our library system) OAI harvested material TV and movie theater commercials Subject experts (ie. people) Cambridge Scientific Abstracts E-journals, e-books Digital Yearbooks (eventually all data from our Digital
Object Management System will be automatically searchable)
More...
Search Integration
We have created a tight integration with our backend systems. Item status Item request User status (from multiple systems) Pickup list
Search Architecture
Search
SummaService
GatewayOrder Service
GatewayLibrary System
Gateway
ServicesLibrary System
Other InternalSystems
Services
Other user interfaces
●●●
The Many Faces of Summa
Search Result
Search Full Record
Search OpenSearch
Search iGoogle Gadget
Search Ubiquity Command
Silkeborg Public Library
Silkeborg Mobile
Odense Public Library
Try it out yourself...
...using Summix
http://wiki.statsbiblioteket.dk/summa/Community/Tutorials/Summix
Summix is a sample setup of Summa complete with a small collection of sample OIA data to index.
Up and running in minutes including a simple web user interface and a web service API.
Resources
Statsbiblioteket Searchhttp://www.statsbiblioteket.dk/
Software Development at Statsbiblioteket bloghttp://sbdevel.wordpress.com/
Summa Sandboxhttp://wiki.statsbiblioteket.dk/summa/Sandbox
Summa Wikihttp://wiki.statsbiblioteket.dk/summa/
Summa Sitehttp://statsbiblioteket.dk/summa/
Silkeborg Public Libraryhttp://www.silkeborgbibliotekerne.dk/
Odense Public Libraryhttp://www.odensebib.dk/
Questions?
