SRU Open Search: Open Source Customizable Interface for Displaying SRU-Formatted XML
Posted in Open Source Software, Search Engines on July 10th, 2008The Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services at the University of Strathclyde has released SRU Open Search, an open source customizable interface for displaying SRU-formatted XML.
Here are some features selected from a more comprehensive list:
- Bookmarkable pages, so you can share a page of results via email
- Share items via social bookmarking sites (Delicious, Digg, Google)
- Featured audio highlighting—inline mp3 player via flash
- Featured content highlighting . . .
- Visualisation of search terms via pie chart, tag cloud & tree map . . .
- Portable version of search so users can add to their own site
- Browser search plugin for Firefox & Internet Explorer (inc Auto Suggest)
























