Uniting Global Information with Federated Search Abe Lederman

Uniting Global Information with Federated Search Abe Lederman, President, Deep Web Technologies Dr. Rosanne Hessmiller, CEO, Ferguson-Lynch Presentation to USAID, July 9, 2008

“We in the information business need to recognize this gap between availability and need, and seize the opportunity to provide information consumers with better tools. ” -Dr. Walt Warnick, Director, DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information

Ferguson Lynch Information Consultancy Firm Founded 1998 Our primary focus is in l Services include: helping assimilate • Website andclients portal development • Internet applications emerging technologies • Online workflow solutions within theirapplications personal • Online research • Interactive video and television production organizational process and • e-solutions for business and research processes l purpose.

Who is Deep Web Tech? l Founded in 2002 l Headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico l 20 Employees l Over $2 million in R&D funding DWT is focused on providing state-of-the-art federated search products and solutions which search, retrieve, aggregate and analyze content from web-based databases.

Abe Lederman-Background l l l Earned B. S. and M. S. Computer Science degrees, MIT Began work in information retrieval in 1988, Co-founded Verity Consulted to LANL, 1994 -2000 Developed some of the first web-based applications that searched text-based content, 1994 Pioneered “Deep Web” searching in 1999, OSTI

Some of Our Customers l Department of Defense l DOE Office of Scientific and Technical Information l Intel Corporate Library l National Agricultural Library l Stanford University

What is Federated Search? Federated Search is an application or service that allows a user to submit a search in parallel to multiple, distributed information sources and retrieve aggregated, ranked and de-duped results.

In Other Words… One Search, Many Sources Begin Search Subscription Sources News E-Books Public Web Sources Technical Reports Blogs & Wikis

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Development Select results Refine your Search

Download, print or email results View session selections Create an Alert

Benefits of Federated Search l l One-stop access to multiple information sources • Users don’t need to know where/how to search • Saves researcher time and money • Improves utilization of information sources Consolidated, ranked and de-duped results • Important results are not missed

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Thank You! Abe Lederman abe@deepwebtech. com Rose Hessmiller info@fergusonlynch. com