Federated Search A Tool for Knowledge Discovery i

Federated Search: A Tool for Knowledge Discovery i. Group Online Education Conference Presented by Abe Lederman Founder and CTO of Deep Web Technologies © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc.

About Deep Web Technologies. . . • Founded by Abe Lederman, a cofounder of Verity • Pioneered federated search technology • Over $3 M in Research and Development • Production applications since 1999 Deep Web Technologies is focused on providing next generation federated search solutions which search, retrieve, aggregate and analyze content from web-based databases. © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc.

Knowledge Discovery Spreading electronic information through research communities, local or distant. © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 3

Federated Search Supports Knowledge Discovery • All information available in one place • Searches sources from many disciplines (cross-fertilization of ideas) • Connects people in distant research communities (global discovery) • Accesses the highest quality sources • Speeds the research process by presenting the most relevant results © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 4

#1 Reason for Federated Search Accelerate discovery by bringing content to researchers that Google can't find © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 5

What is “Federated Search”? Federated Search is an application or service that allows users to submit a real-time search in parallel to multiple, distributed information sources and retrieve aggregated, ranked and de-duplicated results. © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 6

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User Benefits of Federated Search ØOne-stop access to all your information sources – Users don’t need to know where/how to search – Saves researcher time and money – Improves utilization of information sources ØConsolidated, ranked and de-duped results – Important results are not missed © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 8

Discovering Federated Search Ø Access to Collections Ø Quality Connectors and Results Ø User interface Ø Results delivery Ø Automatic alerts Ø Instant Search Customization Ø Administrative Console Ø Multilingual Translation It’s about Quality, not Quantity © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 9

Unlimited Collections ASTM International Biblioteca Virtual En Salud Bio. Med Central Search an unlimited number of resources tailored to your organization’s specific needs Cochrane BVS DOAJ EBSCO E-Libro IEEE Explore Legal. Publish MD Consult Open J-Gate Pro. Quest SCIELO Pub. Med Up. To. Date © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 10

Unlimited Collections ASTM International Biblioteca Virtual En Salud Bio. Med Central Cochrane BVS DOAJ EBSCO E-Libro IEEE Explore Legal. Publish MD Consult Compatible with various protocols including Z 39. 50 Open J-Gate Pro. Quest SCIELO Pub. Med Up. To. Date © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 11

Quality of Search Results Thorough connector development Tie all of your internal, subscription and external collections together, extracting the most information to your results. © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 12

Quality of Search Results Boolean and Fielded Searching We support Boolean searches, wildcards, stemming and fielded searches. © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 13

Quality of Search Results Relevance ranking of retrieved data Instantly find relevant results with our five-star ranking system. © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 14

User Interface Integration with your library’s website Results display incrementally © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 15 “Intuitive” navigation

Results Delivery Aggregated, ranked results Clustering or grouping of results by Source, Date, Topic, Author or other designated field © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 16

Results Delivery Results export to email and citation managers such as Ref. Works and End. Note Analysis tools such as filters and sorts © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 17

Automatic Alerts can be set for a daily, weekly or monthly frequency © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 18

Automatic Alerts Results are delivered to Your RSS/ATOM feed reader or e-mail inbox, and can easily be emailed or downloaded © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 19

Automatic Alerts Search any or all collections automatically for repeat queries. © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 20

Customizing Search Engines Create search boxes and search pages easily Easily enable/disable your collections and search fields © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 21

Customizing Search Engines © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 22

Administrative Console View website statistics from one administrative console © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 23

Multilingual Translation © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 24

Thank You! Questions? Please email me: Abe: abe@deepwebtech. com Deep Web Technologies © 2009 Deep Web Technologies, Inc. 25