The Institute for Research and Innovation in Social Services at the University of Strathclyde has released SRU Open Search, an open source customizable interface for displaying SRU-formatted XML.

Here are some features selected from a more comprehensive list:

• Bookmarkable pages, so you can share a page of results via email
• Share items via social bookmarking sites (Delicious, Digg, Google)
• Featured audio highlighting—inline mp3 player via flash
• Featured content highlighting . . .
• Visualisation of search terms via pie chart, tag cloud & tree map . . .
• Portable version of search so users can add to their own site
• Browser search plugin for Firefox & Internet Explorer (inc Auto Suggest)

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