A recently unveiled search engine for accessing the collections of Finland's archives, libraries and museums was built on open source, announces the country's National Library. "The advantage of open source is that it enables organisations to work together to develop a system without limits, contracts or procedures." The engine itself is also made publicly available.
The service will be taken in production tomorrow.
The new solution, called Finna, is a discovery portal, not just a search engine, explains Aki Lassila, Head of Development at Finland's National Library Services, who describes the system as "an information source for search engines."
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