Den Store Danske
Copenhagen, Denmark
www.denstoredanske.dk
Industry:
Content provider
Employees:
Approx. 500
Users:
45.000 per day
Alpha Solutions took the open source search engine Lucene and the open source CMS DekiWiki and turned it into the exact solution that Gyldendal was aiming at.
Gyldendal launches their Danish encyclopedia – Den Store Danske as a Wikipedia online portal
Gyldendal’s business challenge was to provide an online Wikipedia based on the “Den Store Danske” which is an encyclopedia.
The online Wikipedia should work as a Wikipedia where everybody can contribute with content but with a [verified] function on each content entry
Challenges
- Make the “Den Store Danske” available online
- Support a [verified] function on each entry
Solution
- Installation and setup of Lucene to index the xml based editorial system containing the encyclopedia with 200.000 full text documents
- Solution developed using DekiWiki Open source CMS - Alpha Solutions has developed a layer to handle the “verified” functionality with Lucene
- To enhance search results stemming and Did you mean was implemented