http://www.talis.com/tdn/node/1519 Comments for "Danish contribution: Search interface à la Web 2.0" en http://www.talis.com/tdn/node/1519 <p>The State and University Library's contribution is a new search engine.<br /> Its name is Summa. It searches across a given number of data sources and presents the output for the user in a single search result. Summa also adds extra value to search results by pulling information from external web service based information sources, such as author bibliographies or images collections.</p> <p>Summa's philosophy is simple: development must be based on user needs and user behaviour.</p> <p>One important usability observation is that library users know little or nothing of the valuable resources and collections that many libraries maintain outside the library database. To address this issue, Summa mashes up information from a wide array of external web resources.</p> <p><a href="http://www.talis.com/tdn/node/1519">read more</a></p> http://www.talis.com/tdn/node/1519#comments Competition entries Thu, 17 Aug 2006 16:17:15 +0100 Richard Wallis 1519 at http://www.talis.com/tdn