The National Library of Australia (NLA) has more than doubled its web services traffic to reach more than 2.5 billion hits in 2009.
Speaking at the CIO Summit 2010 in Sydney, NLA assistant director of general information technology, Mark Corbould, attributed a lot of the organisation’s success to the use of open source solutions.
In 2006 across all of its online assets including the public catalogue and the Trove search engine, the NLA had half a billion web server requests. This jumped in 2008 to over one billion and last year hit more than 2.5 billion billion in 2009.
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Speaking at the CIO Summit 2010 in Sydney, NLA assistant director of general information technology, Mark Corbould, attributed a lot of the organisation’s success to the use of open source solutions.
“We are now probably the highest ranked cultural institution in Australia in terms of our web presence,” Corbould told the summit attendees.
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In April the NLA unveiled its Trove search engine that was built on an open source platform.
The search engine provides access to more than 90 million items about Australians and Australia, sourced from more than 1000 libraries and cultural institutions across the country
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The Trove project’s team of five developers used SOLR 1.4, which internally uses Lucene 2.9, for the main bibliographic search database and the web page archive, and MySQL 5 for managing all data relationships.
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