119491 INL false agradmin@inl.gov CS S 2009-12-01 Needle Federated Search Engine NEEDLE https://doi.org/10.11578/dc.20240117.244 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. United States Idaho National Laboratory 4603 2024-01-17 2024-02-02 false stooksburys@osti.gov false Wayne Simpson Sam Allred Sandy Biermann Emert Follett Hope Forsmann Barry Hansen Jackie Loop Scott Jeffery David Handy Lee Kerns USDOE AC07-05ID14517 true Idaho National Laboratory (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States) true