Abstract
The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has combined a number of technologies, tools, and resources to accomplish a new means of federating search results. The resulting product is a search engine called Needle, an open-source-based tool that the INL uses internally for researching across a wide variety of information repositories. Needle has a flexible search interface that allows end users to point at any available data source. A user can select multiple sources such as commercial databases (Web of Science, Engineering Index), external resources (WorldCat, Google Scholar), and internal corporate resources (email, document management system, library collections) in a single interface with one search query. In the future, INL hopes to offer this open-source engine to the public. This session will outline the development processes for making Needle's search interface and simplifying the federation of internal and external data sources.
- Developers:
- Release Date:
- 2009-12-01
- Project Type:
- Closed Source
- Software Type:
- Scientific
- Sponsoring Org.:
-
USDOEPrimary Award/Contract Number:AC07-05ID14517
- Code ID:
- 119491
- Site Accession Number:
- 4603
- Research Org.:
- Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Country of Origin:
- United States
Citation Formats
Simpson, Wayne, Allred, Sam, Biermann, Sandy, Follett, Emert, Forsmann, Hope, Hansen, Barry, Loop, Jackie, Jeffery, Scott, Handy, David, and Kerns, Lee.
Needle Federated Search Engine.
Computer Software.
USDOE.
01 Dec. 2009.
Web.
doi:10.11578/dc.20240117.244.
Simpson, Wayne, Allred, Sam, Biermann, Sandy, Follett, Emert, Forsmann, Hope, Hansen, Barry, Loop, Jackie, Jeffery, Scott, Handy, David, & Kerns, Lee.
(2009, December 01).
Needle Federated Search Engine.
[Computer software].
https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20240117.244.
Simpson, Wayne, Allred, Sam, Biermann, Sandy, Follett, Emert, Forsmann, Hope, Hansen, Barry, Loop, Jackie, Jeffery, Scott, Handy, David, and Kerns, Lee.
"Needle Federated Search Engine." Computer software.
December 01, 2009.
https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20240117.244.
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title = {Needle Federated Search Engine},
author = {Simpson, Wayne and Allred, Sam and Biermann, Sandy and Follett, Emert and Forsmann, Hope and Hansen, Barry and Loop, Jackie and Jeffery, Scott and Handy, David and Kerns, Lee},
abstractNote = {The Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has combined a number of technologies, tools, and resources to accomplish a new means of federating search results. The resulting product is a search engine called Needle, an open-source-based tool that the INL uses internally for researching across a wide variety of information repositories. Needle has a flexible search interface that allows end users to point at any available data source. A user can select multiple sources such as commercial databases (Web of Science, Engineering Index), external resources (WorldCat, Google Scholar), and internal corporate resources (email, document management system, library collections) in a single interface with one search query. In the future, INL hopes to offer this open-source engine to the public. This session will outline the development processes for making Needle's search interface and simplifying the federation of internal and external data sources.},
doi = {10.11578/dc.20240117.244},
url = {https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20240117.244},
howpublished = {[Computer Software] \url{https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20240117.244}},
year = {2009},
month = {dec}
}