Presentation on Findability Day 2012 from the early stages in the search project at KTH Royal Institue of Technology

1. Nobody puts Search in the corner
A case study from The Royal Institute of Technology

3. Why a search
project?

4. Who is using
search today?
- Students
- Employees
- Prospective students

5. Behind the scenes
Project key values
- Use standards
- Make data accessible via api´s
- Make all possible data publicly available
Technologies
- Play Framework with Java
- Google Search Appliance
- Java
- Heroku

6. Featured
search
results
- Navigation help
- Direct information
- Drive traffic to products
- Show "hidden" data

7. Project timeline

8. Difficulties
- Autonomous sub-organizations and thus distributed
information and ownership
- No one has knowledge or ownership of all information
- What is relevant?
- Missing data or search unfriendly data

9. Lessons learned
- It´s all about the data sources
- Much more than a search engine
- Connections and corporate contacts matters
- It´s a cross organization and cross competence project
- Start early with requirements
- We need to put much more attention to day to day management

10. What´s next?
- Search as a service
- Crowdsourcing synonyms collection
- Emphasize search as a navigation method
- Mashups of existing data sources for interesting user needs

11. Thank you for listening!