Vivsimo Powers New NARA Search

January 19, 2011

“NARA Brings Online Collections Together” announces the National Archives and Records Administrations’ new online public access, called, creatively, Online Public Access. Okay, snark aside, this is wonderful news for anyone searching some of NARA’s most popular resources. Behind the scenes, Obama’s open government initiative provided the funding and an enterprise search software company, the technology.

Here is the basic idea: “NARA implemented a search engine from Vivisimo to crawl the Archives.gov, Archival Research Catalog and Access to Archival Databases. The results include all the contextual information of the records including date, type of material whether picture or document or movie and the physical location of the material. Users can click on the picture or movie and view it right there on the screen.” And, this is only the beginning. This year, NARA is planning to add about 40 terabytes of records, a zoom function, and sharing through social sites, contingent on funding from Congress. I hope that the budget fairy is kind to them.

Alice Wasielewski, January 19, 2011

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Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under Business strategy, Government, News, Search

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