Summa

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Summa Who and where?

• Hans Lauridsen
• State and University Library, Aarhus, Denmark

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Summa What is it?

• A search engine and a frontend
• For indexing metadata or fulltext
• Integrated search
• Modular
• Modern web technologies
• Open Standards (soap webservices, ajax, xml)
• Open Source

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Summa What is it not?

• Certainly not a library system / OPAC
• Nothing to do with federated search
• Not another Google

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Summa Why did we develop it?

• Old and very proprietary library system
• Slow searching
• No tools for integrating external services

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Summa Why do it now?

• OCLC Perceptions of Libraries and Information
  Resources (2005)
• UCL Bibliographic Services Task Force Final
  Report (2005)
• DEFF The hybrid library from the user's
  perspective (2006)
• No system available

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Summa Prehistory
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Summa The Plan..

• Give the user what the user wants (Google and
  Amazon)
• Use java and Lucene
• Use webservices where possible
• Ranking rather than library sorting
• Very fast, flexible and open
• Combine IT knowledge with library knowledge

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Summa - History

• New Year 2006 Beta
• Summer 2006 Summa
• Autumn 2006 Search, powered by Summa
• Autumn 2007 Summa as Open Source
• Spring 2008 Summa 1.0

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Summa - Workflow
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Summa - Demonstration

• Linux
• Immunology AND blood
• John Grisham
• Elvis
• Suzanne Brøgger
• 1071-412X
• ??
• Kina Japan Indien

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Summa Future?

• New Summa?
• Open Source
• Improvements

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Summa Where do you find it?

• www.statsbiblioteket.dk/summa
• Summa Internet Librarian 2007

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Summa The Team
Meet the Team
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Summa Thank You
Any Questions?