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<b>SMILA - Unified Information Access Architecture</b> is an extensible framework for building search solutions
 to access unstructured information in the enterprise. Besides providing essential infrastructure components and
  services, SMILA also delivers ready-to-use add-on components, like connectors to most relevant data sources.
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<b>Goals:</b>
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<p>&bull; Define and implement an extensible framework based on SOA principles and 
standards (e.g. BPEL, REST), which is dedicated to the access and integration of (unstructured) information.</p>
<p>&bull; Provide ready-to-use framework components (data source connectors and service 
implementations) that help to demonstrate and leverage its capabilities.</p>
<p>&bull; Deliver interfaces for management, operation and monitoring of the framework and its components.</p>