1. Summa/Search
Digital Libraries à la Carte 2009
Tilburg University, 2009-07-31
Mads Villadsen <mv@statsbiblioteket.dk>

2. Who
 Mads Villadsen
 IT Developer at Statsbiblioteket since 2003
 Technical Lead for the Summa project

3. What is Summa

4. Summa on One Page
Keywords Cold Facts
 Search Engine  Java
 Designed for Libraries  Lucene Index(es)
 Scalable  LGPL Licensed
 Open Source  Developed Since Winter
2005
 Modular
 In Production Since Nov.
 Flexible 2006
 Highly Configurable
 Integrated Search

5. Summa Timeline
Relabeled as
Internal development “Summa” and put in Summa 0.8 released
using Lucene production as open source
Winter 2005 November 2006 September 2008
Christmas 2005 Early 2007 14th Sept. 2008
“Beta” as Christmas A rewrite with Summa 1.0
present ”Everything Done
Right” (TM) starts

6. “Release Often”
Oct 31 2008 Summa 1.1 Apr 28 2009 Summa 1.4.1
Feb 9 2009 Summa 1.2.0 May 5 2009 Summa 1.4.2
Feb 18 2009 Summa 1.2.1 May 11 2009 Summa 1.4.3
Mar 27 2009 Summa 1.3.0 May 20 2009 Summa 1.4.4
Apr 16 2009 Summa 1.3.1 Jun 4 2009 Summa 1.4.5
Apr 20 2009 Summa 1.3.2 Jun 23 2009 Summa 1.4.6
Apr 20 2009 Summa 1.3.3 Jun 26 2009 Summa 1.4.7
Apr 24 2009 Summa 1.4.0

7. What is Search

8. 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.

9. 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...

10. Search Integration
We have created a tight integration with our
backend systems.
 Item status
 Item request
 User status (from multiple systems)
 Pickup list

11. Search Architecture
Other user
Search
interfaces
Service Order Service Library System
Summa
Gateway Gateway Gateway
Library System
Services Services
●●●
Other Internal
Systems

12. The Many Faces of Summa

13. Search Result

14. Search Full Record

15. Search OpenSearch

16. Search iGoogle Gadget

17. Search Ubiquity Command

18. Silkeborg Public Library

19. Silkeborg Mobile

20. Odense Public Library

21. 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.

22. Resources
 Statsbiblioteket Search
http://www.statsbiblioteket.dk/
 Software Development at Statsbiblioteket blog
http://sbdevel.wordpress.com/
 Summa Sandbox
http://wiki.statsbiblioteket.dk/summa/Sandbox
 Summa Wiki
http://wiki.statsbiblioteket.dk/summa/
 Summa Site
http://statsbiblioteket.dk/summa/
 Silkeborg Public Library
http://www.silkeborgbibliotekerne.dk/
 Odense Public Library
http://www.odensebib.dk/

23. Questions?