IGeLU 2014
FINNA, the best of both worlds
National Library of Finland

FINNA includes material from libraries, museum and archives. It is a discovery interface, though it's more than that. It is a "national view" of the collections but it enables each institution to have it's own view and that's about one hundred that have harvested in test, with 50 that are in production. FINNA is based on the open source discovery service VuFind.

FINNA architecture
Usually the various indexes have their own repositories. The description and the links of the electronic resources are kept in MetaLib and the linking is done with SFX. Universities are always worried that the Primo central index doesn't have all the content they want so that's why there's a need to keep MetaLib. But Primo central index is included in the architecture.

The interface contains tabs for each separate index, the only material harvested is that which can be accessed by everyone, one of the reason being that it's difficult to integrate them together. That's one of the reasons why they didn't make a deal with ProQuest (before they had an agreement with ExLibris). So there's as "split view" between the local content and that from Primo central index. With a combined view it's not possible to say to the user all that we want so it's a showcase for a single search box and filtering happens later. Blending doesn't allow a proper relevancy ranking.

Another problem is that there is some duplication in different indexes, e.g. ebooks. It has also been a challenge naming the tabs so in the end the universities can do on which ever way they want. Finally how to make sure users get the best or correct content? One solution is authentication (? I think).